What was the the French National Assembly's response to slavery?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. With the debates raised over the terms of sovereignty and who was guaranteed rights within the state of France, the realization that all men, including slaves, were supposed to be free and equal conflicted directly with the goals of the Revolution. Although France was considered free, it held colonial territories in the Caribbean, where there was slavery. Critics pointed out that the two facts were incompatible, and they were also incompatible with the Enlightenment philosophy on which they based the Revolution. White colonists tried justifying this problem by saying that the Declaration did not apply to slaves. Nonetheless, the Assembly granted some limited citizenships to slaves in the spring of 1791, on Sainte Domingue. A few months later, there was a mass slave uprising led by François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture in which many plantation owners were killed. This was the first successful slave revolt. It ended French control of the island and its participation in the Atlantic trade. Subsequently, France completely outlawed slavery in 1794 and granted full citizenship to ex-slaves.
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