What was one of the most revoliuton social reforms of the jacobin regime?
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The abolition of slavery in the French colonies was
one of the most revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime. Throughout
the French Revolution the Jacobin leader Robespierre opposed slavery in France
and its territories. The slaves in St. Domingue led a revolution against
slavery and colonial rule. They liberated themselves and formed an army to
oppose re - enslavement. The radical 1793 constitution
supported by Robespierre ratified by a national referendum, granted universal
suffrage to French men and explicitly condemned slavery. But this was not
implemented. In 1794, January , delegations representing both former
slaveholders and former slaves arrived in France to petition for slavery or its
abolition. The National Convention passed a decree banning slavery on February
4. Robespierre praised the French as the first to "summon all men to
equality and liberty, and their full rights as citizens".