Law Taubira

The law Taubira is a French law concerning the teaching of the matters relating to the Esclavage.

The Law of May 21st, 2001 known as “ law Taubira ” on slavery, lays out:

“Article 1st - the French Republic recognizes that the transatlantic draft négrière as well as the draft in the Indian Ocean on the one hand, and slavery on the other hand, perpetrated starting from the xve century, in Americas and the Caribbean, in the Indian Ocean and in Europe against the populations African, Amerindian, Malagasy and Indian constitute a crime against humanity.

Article 2 - The school programs and the research programs in history and social sciences will grant to the Traite négrière and the Esclavage the consequent place which they deserve. The co-operation which will make it possible to put in articulation the files written available in Europe with the oral sources and the archaeological knowledge accumulated in Africa, in Americas, in the Caribbean and in all the other territories having known slavery will be encouraged and supported.

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However article 2 does not give a directive on the orientation of the treatment of this page of the history.

Dispute

The May 5th 2006, a few days before the first commemoration of the abrogation of slavery on May 10th, a group of deputies UMP carried out by Lionnel Luca request the Abrogation of the article on the teaching of slavery. These members of Parliament justify their request “under parallelism of the forms and by preoccupations with an equal treatment” following the abrogation of article 4 of the Loi of February 23rd which mentioned a positive role of colonization. This initiative was disapproved by the ministers Leon Bertrand and François Baroin, just as by the deputy UDF Jean-Christophe Lagarde and the Socialist party.

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