 After the resignation of O’Higgins, Infante became a member of the Government Junta that assumed power.In the same year General Ramon Freire was elected Supreme Director, and offered Infante a seat in the Superior Court, which he at first declined, but afterward accepted, His first measure was the abolition of slavery in the territory of Chile, which in later years he counted as his principal glory.He desired that the only inscription on his tomb should be "The author of the law of abolition."