I feel compelled to plug the excellent podcast Age of Napoleon for those like me who are auditorially inclined, for which this post is an excellent companion
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Read the section on slavery for a laugh
You see racism wasn't a word when napoleon was alive so he couldn't have been racist!
https://www.napoleon-empire.org/en/napoleon-bonaparte-and-slavery.php
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a brilliant Major General of the French Republic, was also initially treated particularly well by First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte
"initially"