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The French Revolution
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ABOLITION OF SLAVERY
The National Assembly held long debates about whether the rights of man should be extended to all French subjects including those in the colonies.
But it did not pass any laws, fearing opposition from businessmen whose incomes depended on the slave trade.
One of the most revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
It was finally the Convention which in 1794 legislated to free all slaves in the French overseas possessions which however, turned out to be a short-term measure as Napoleon reintroduced slavery ten years later (1804).
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