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, ...
'The First Emancipation' Review: Abolition in Revolutionary France
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