The Convention abolished slavery in all French colonies and declared formerly enslaved people citizens. Saint-Domingue’s mass uprising and the local emancipation decrees had made the old order untenable. The metropolitan decree recognized a freedom people had fought to win; its reach remained vulnerable to later political reversal.
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