The French legislature abolishes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery" id="mwUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slavery">slavery</a> throughout all territories of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French First Republic">French First Republic</a>.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_4#cite_note-8" id="mwVQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwVg">[8]</span></a></sup> It would be reestablished in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_West_Indies" id="mwVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="French West Indies">French West Indies</a> in 1802.
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBatselé2020">Batselé, Filip (2020). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4tHHDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA53" id="mwBhE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBhI">Liberty, Slavery and the Law in Early Modern Western Europe</i></a>. Springer Nature. p.<span id="mwBhM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>53. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBhU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-3-030-36855-5" id="mwBhY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-030-36855-5"><bdi id="mwBhc">978-3-030-36855-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwBhg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Liberty%2C+Slavery+and+the+Law+in+Early+Modern+Western+Europe&amp;rft.pages=53&amp;rft.pub=Springer+Nature&amp;rft.date=2020&amp;rft.isbn=978-3-030-36855-5&amp;rft.aulast=Batsel%C3%A9&amp;rft.aufirst=Filip&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4tHHDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA53&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+4"></span></span>