Today is the anniversary of the first abolition of slavery in France, unanimously declared on the 4th of February 1794 (16 pluviôse an II) by the Convention during the French Revolution, before being rescinded a few years later by Napoléon. I would have liked more details to be included in the tagged book, but Eric Hazan makes it clear that the abolition was imposed by Haitian slaves rather than gifted magnanimously from mainland France, so👍
Dilara Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, representative for Haiti in the French Convention, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. As a free black man, he was able to be elected as a representative for Haiti in 1793, and he participated in writing the abolition decree in 1794. (edited) 4h
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