| Until Haiti, abolitionists focused on either gradual emancipation, or simply ending the slave trade, not slavery itself. |
| In 1831, a movement was on foot to agitate the question of abolishing slavery. |
| The slave code adopted in 1798 and modified from time to time presented in considerable detail the legal aspects of slavery in the state. |
| It was not until 1837, however, that the state's first legislature passed a comprehensive slave code to regulate slaves, slavery, and free blacks. |
| It was evident that this Assembly must take a definite position with reference to the question of the abolishment of slavery. |
| A Frenchman, taken into slavery by an Algerine, was asked what he could do. |
