Desperate commissioners granted citizenship to any slave who fought for the Republic

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It was “the will of the French Republic and of its delegates,” they announced, to grant freedom to all “black warriors” who would “fight for the Republic.” Any slave who took up arms in their defense would become “equal to all free men” and receive “all the rights belonging to French citizens.” They sent officers out to invite any slaves who wanted freedom to join them. Enemies of the commissioners would later declare that beneath the offer of freedom and citizenship was a more sinister invitation: the new recruits were won over with an offer of booty from the town. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 542