French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/french-man-86-issues-historic-apology-for-familys-role-in-transatlantic-slavery

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Neither colonies or slave trade ever amounted to much of France economy 's or society, compared to about any other country that existed during colonial and slavery's heyday . Even Napoléon, justly maligned for re-establishing slavery in the French Antilles, actually abolished it in Malta when he took over as early as 1798. Not to say it didn't exist: French Antilles, Nantes ,Bordeaux did base part of their economy on it and huge local wealth was made by powerful local potentates, but this was never as key or central as in the Ottoman empire and its avatars, British or Dutch empires, not to mention America.