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The pacification led by the French administration lasted about fifteen years, in response to the rural guerrillas scattered throughout the country. In total, the conflicts between the French authorities and Malagasy guerrillas killed more than 100,000 Malagasy people. [4] The French abolished slavery in 1896 after taking control of Madagascar.
The decree entailed that any slave setting foot on French ground should be freed. [7] However some limited cases of slavery continued until the 17th century in some of France's Mediterranean harbors in Provence , and slavery was common in many of France's overseas territories until the 18th century and again for the first half of the 19th century.
The slavery was abolished by the French administration in 1896, which adversely impacted the fortunes of Merina and non-Merina operated slave-run plantations. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Andevo strata in the Merina society have been domestic and plantation workers.
(in French) de Coppet, Marcel, Madagascar, Paris, Encyclopédie de l'Empire français, 2 vol. 1947 (in French) Deschamps, Hubert, Madagascar, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1976. (in French) Domenichini-Ramiaramana, Michel, Instruments de musique des Hautes-Terres de Madagascar, Master's thesis Paris 1982.
[97] In 1905, the French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa. [98] From 1906 to 1911, over a million slaves in French West Africa fled from their masters to earlier homes. [99] In Madagascar over 500,000 slaves were freed following French abolition in 1896. [100]
ZWAM (Zatovo Western Andevo Malagasy [1] or Zatovo Western Amical Malagasy [2]) was a youth movement which emerged in Antananarivo, Madagascar (the Malagasy Republic) in 1972 to support the student protests against the rule of President Philibert Tsiranana.
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The Malagasy Uprising (French: Insurrection malgache; Malagasy: Tolom-bahoaka tamin' ny 1947) was a Malagasy nationalist rebellion against French colonial rule in Madagascar, lasting from March 1947 to February 1949.