Revolutionary Emancipationism

Revolutionary emancipationism names the political formation that emerged in the French Caribbean between 1793 and 1795, when enslaved and formerly enslaved Black fighters, radical republican officials, and imperial war pressures converged to make general emancipation thinkable, enforceable, and militarily useful. In the vault, it is the clearest shorthand for the moment when abolition stopped being a distant moral wish and became an armed program.