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Jean-Baptiste Belley was a native of Senegal, a former slave of Haiti, but during his lifetime, he also was elected to represent the colony at the third government of the French Revolution, and he advocated strongly for the abolition of slavery.

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In all of these ways, the Atlantic slave trade was an injustice on a massive scale whose impact has continued long after its abolition.

"Be that as it may, Napoléon introduced a new constitution and a legal code that kept some of the most important achievements of the revolution in tact: freedom of religion abolition of hereditary privilege, and equality before the law for all men." "All men, indeed.

If we get fixated on the abolition of sex work, we end up worrying more about a particular manifestation of gender inequality, rather than about the underlying causes.

By the time the next election comes, I believe every candidate will have to disclose where they stand on the abolition of fossil fuels.

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