COMMÉMORATION DE L'ABOLITION DE L'ESCLAVAGE

This event was commemorated until 2012 on 27 May, the day of the abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe, the home island until 2007. The Territorial Council of Saint-Barth unanimously adopted a deliberation within the Territorial Council in June 2009 for the recognition of the date of 9 October. The decree of 23 April 2012 confirmed this change. In Swedish times, slavery was abolished on 9 October 1847.