The Different System of Slavery in St. Genevieve

30 to 40% of St. Genevieve's population was enslaved. Slavery here was based on codenoir which was the French slave system. Owners could not force people who they were enslaving to work on Sundays. You couldn't sell a father away from his wife and children or children away from their parents.

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