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4
Febrüari
1794

French National Convention abolishes slavery in all French colonies

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📅 4 Febrüari 1794 📍 Haiti

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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Jean-Baptiste Belley

Louis-Pierre Dufay

Jean-Baptiste Mills

French National Convention

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French National Convention

French Republic