General Liberation - The End of the French Empire

Santenax issued an eight page general emancipation decree that opened with the words of the declaration of the rights of man. Santenax had come to saint domain personally opposed to slavery, but not intending to abolish it. The word and legal category of slave was banished forever. But the ex slaves would now be called cultivators, who must remain attached to their current plantation for at least a year. And women making two thirds what the men made.