> and in Napoleon’s case reinstating slavery

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.