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The convention to free all slaves in France was legislated in 1717.

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The above statement is false.
In France, the practice of slavery was abolished. It was possibly the primary societal change brought about by the French Revolution. A lengthy debate regarding men's rights in the French provinces took place in public. Still, the law was not passed as a result of concern over opposition from people in business whose livelihood depended heavily on the slave trade. The law to free all enslaved people was finally implemented in France in 1794, although it didn't last very long. In the ten years that followed, Napoleon brought back bondage. In the French states, bondage was finally abolished in 1848.
Hence the correct statement would be, The convention to free all enslaved people in France was legislated in 1794.

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