[ABOLITION OF SLAVERY]. Decree of the National Convention, of the 16th day of Pluviôse, second year of the French Republic, one & indivisible, which abolishes the Slavery of Negroes in the Colonies. Chartres, Imprimerie Nationale, Labalte, 1794. One folio in-4. Slight foxing and browning in the margins. Chartoise printing of the first decree abolishing slavery in all French colonies, voted by the Convention on February 4, 1794. It begins: "The National Convention declares that the slavery of Negroes in all the Colonies is abolished; consequently it decrees that all men, without distinction of color, domiciled in the colonies, are French citizens, & shall enjoy all the rights assured by the constitution." This sheet was published in Chartres, the same year as the original printed in Paris by the Imprimerie Nationale du Louvre. A fine copy of one of the great revolutionary texts on the equality of men.