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The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson disagreed about the American Revolution’s meaning even as they lay dying

The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but exemplify the capacity for people to disagree and yet work for a common cause.