Status Updates From Der schwarze General. Leben...

“In… Feb. 1794, a.. 3-man delegation arrived in Paris after an arduous journey from Saint-Domingue: Jean-Baptiste Belley, a black native of Senegal and a former slave; Jean-Baptiste Mills, a free Saint-Dominguan..; and Louis-Pierre Dufay, a white Frenchman… made a passionate argument for the abolition of slavery… Then in a single vote, the government became the first in history to abolish slavery.”

“Among the most ubiquitous changes imposed in the first days of the French Republic was the use of the words ‘Citizen’ and ‘Citizeness’ to replace all previous titles, including the most basic ‘Monsieur’ and ‘Madame’… ‘Citizen is a sacred word.’.. the ultimate revolutionary goal should be to emulate the Romans, who did not use any honorifics at all, not even the sacred word ‘citizen’.”