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When, during the French Revolution, the Convention ambitiously declared slavery abolished, Martinique’s wealthy plantation owners frantically objected.
Some years later, French colonizers moved south to both Guadeloupe and Martinique.
Not until his fourth transatlantic journey in 1502 did Columbus reach Martinique.
By 1674, when Louis XIV took formal control of the islands from the debt-ridden commercial administrators, Martinique had become France’s colonial capital in the Lesser Antilles.
In September 1635, d’Esnambuc led a party to Martinique and constructed Fort Saint-Pierre, where a town of that name stands today.