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Joseph Bonaparte's abolition of feudalism, enacted on 2 August 1806, was hailed by contemporaries as a fundamental legal initiative that ended an ancient system of oppression and administrative inequality. A new state had been born and the people, as Vincenzo Cuoco wrote in the very first issue of his newspaper, the Corriere di Napoli, could now rediscover ‘the fullness of their powers and civil freedom’.
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Rao, A.M. (2012). The Feudal Question in the Kingdom of Naples. In: Broers, M., Hicks, P., Guimerá, A. (eds) The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137271396_22
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