'The First Emancipation' Review: Abolition in Revolutionary France

Among the proclamations of the first French republic was an end to slavery in its island possessions -- a forerunner of wider abolition. Revolutionary France pioneered the abolition of slavery. On Feb. 4, 1794, while the country was convulsed in the violent political struggle known as the Terror, ...

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