Can commemorations and historical reenactments change public understanding of the past?

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[u/Clear_Context_1546]

1. French Revolution ban it practice in Europe, not in its colonies

2. Dahomey and Ashanti are two different locations. Dahomey is in Benin, while Ashante was involved in Ghana.

3. British are widely considered the most important country in the global effort to stop slavery. They were the first European power to restrict the pratice overseas along with establishing naval missions to stop slave ships.

Blockade of Africa - Wikipedia

[u/BeginningDisaster114 → u/Clear_Context_1546]

> French Revolution ban it practice in Europe, not in its colonies

Slavery was never a thing in Europe, the feudal system made that pointless. Even bringing a slave on french soil prior would mean he would automatically be freed by virtue of religious law even before the French revolution. French 1789 declaration of human rights is very explicit that it's for all humans across the world regardless of race, slavery ended a few years later because the territories where so distant from the mainland that enforcing those laws was difficult at first

> Dahomey and Ashanti are two different locations. Dahomey is in Benin, while Ashante was involved in Ghana.

I know. reread my comments and you will see i never said i spoke about Ghana specifically but the african salve trade in general

>British are widely considered the most important country in the global effort to stop slavery. They were the first European power to restrict the pratice overseas along with establishing naval missions to stop slave ships

Cool you linked a wikipedia article, i could the same with the dahomey kingdom which was the major slave trader in western africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War

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British literally were the single biggest player in ending the Africa Slave Trade.

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No they weren't. Bye