Which institution abolished slavery in 1794?

Correct answer: National Convention

The governing concept is the role of revolutionary political institutions in ending slavery. In 1794, the National Convention, the elected legislative body of revolutionary republican France, passed the decree that abolished slavery in French colonies. This action belonged to the republican phase and was not a personal order issued by King Louis XVI, who had already been executed in 1793. The Estates General had helped begin the revolutionary political process in 1789, but it was not the institution that enacted the 1794 abolition decree. Napoleon’s later government reversed this policy and reintroduced slavery in several colonies, so his army cannot be the correct answer. Option B is therefore correct because the National Convention formally legislated abolition.