Epigenetics, a new argument to make the French state responsible for the slave trade

Can we inherit the trauma of slavery? This is the argument held by about fifteen militant lawyers in the West Indies, at the origin of a complaint against the French State for its role in the slave trade. The appeal trial, the deliberation of which is expected on Tuesday, is part of a judicial soap opera started in 2005 at the Court of Fort-de-France. Four years after the Taubira vote recognizing slavery as a "

", the activists' objective was to obtain "

". The argument of the activists: that the new generations would be directly hereditary of the physical and psychological abuse experienced by their ancestors. "

“says Me Georges-Emmanuel Germany, one of the fifteen militant lawyers, contacted by

.

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Seventeen years later, to support their thesis, the lawyers say they are armed with new scientific research in the field of epigenetics, this discipline…

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