French Abolition Decree 1794

His presence in the Convention as a Black deputy was central to the political moment that produced the abolition decree.

Was present in the Convention when the abolition decree of 16 pluviôse was passed, as part of the multiracial deputation that made Black citizenship visible in Paris.

The French National Convention's February 4, 1794 decree ratified Sonthonax's and Polverel's colonial abolitions, extending emancipation to all French colonies.

Her resistance was a defense of the 1794 abolition decree whose reversal by Napoleon was the political context of the 1802 Guadeloupe crisis.

The crisis he triggered was the on-the-ground catalyst for the emancipation process that culminated in the February 1794 decree abolishing slavery across French territories.

Implemented the February 1794 abolition decree in Guadeloupe, the most effective deployment of the decree in the Lesser Antilles — turning a legal text into a military recruiting program and Caribbean offensive war policy.

The British occupation was the military context in which the 1794 abolition decree was proclaimed

The burning of Cap-Français was a key step toward the metropolitan abolition decree of 1794

The dissolution was a step in the political sequence leading to full abolition

The June 21 offer began the emancipation sequence that the 1794 National Convention decree completed

The North Province emancipation was the decisive colonial bridge to the Convention's February 1794 empire-wide abolition

Guadeloupe benefited from the 1794 French abolition decree.

Martinique's British occupation meant the 1794 abolition decree did not apply there immediately.

French Abolition Decree 1794 is associated with this concept.

French Abolition Decree 1794

French Abolition Decree 1794