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Also french soldiers could become and did become officers, british bought the rank.
The man was loved, especially because people knew how life was in antirevolutionary countries.
https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/artic...
"Formally, the law only “maintained” slavery where it had not been abolished, i.e., in law, in the colonies occupied by the British from 1794 to 1802 (Martinique essentially) and, in fact, in those situated east of the Cape of Good Hope.
But in the instructions he gave to the captains general who were to administer the “reconquered” colonies, Bonaparte asked them to re-establish slavery everywhere, when they deemed it appropriate. This is what they would do in Saint-Domingue, Guyana and Guadeloupe."
And mind you, this is from napoleon.org, a pretty pro-Napoleon source.
For context: Napoleon reintroduced slavery in certain colonies 1802, after its abolition in the French Revolution.
It was finally abolished by France during the Second Republic, in 1848.
The US only abolished slavery in December 1865.
Britain did so in 1834 throughout its realm.
Mauritania, a country in Africa, was the last in the world to abolish slavery in 1981.
Nope.
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/t...
This is just one piece. You will find more if you look. Britain's slavery history is anything but what it seems it is.
Are you British by any chance? Genuinely curious. I am asking because Britain is known to have, not whitewashed, but pretty much completely removed their barbarous colonial past and acts from the their own citizen's history books.
You could also have mentioned that he abolished restrictions and discriminations imposed on the Jews in every European country he conquered.
Decriminalization of homosexuality as well. Many things can be criticised but he did largely spread the progressive ideals of the French revolution all over Europe, where they stayed durably .
The people in the colonies (displaced slaves as well as French settlers) were very far from being equal to those in Europe, which is hardly specific to France though.