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1615

1615: King Louis XIII approves an edict for enslavement on the condition that it serves Christian conversion.

1615: King Louis XIII approves an edict for enslavement on the condition that it serves Christian conversion. This law attempted to justify the slave trade by linking it to the religious mission of the French crown.

Source  ·  p. 58 Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 58