The Committee of Public Safety endorsed emancipation and ex-slave citizenship

Evidence

“Let it no longer be said that the African cannot be submitted to discipline,” demanded another representative in the National Convention a few months later. “The love of liberty makes him capable of anything, and the strikes he has made against the Spanish and the British are incontestable proof of his courage.” He was speaking on behalf of the powerful Committee of Public Safety, which had just completed a report about the situation of the colonies. It confirmed many of Belley’s claims. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 672