What question did the French Revolution raise about slavery?

Should liberty and equality apply to enslaved people too?

The governing concept is the contradiction between universal revolutionary ideals and the continued existence of slavery. The French Revolution proclaimed liberty and equality, but French colonial societies still deprived enslaved people of freedom and treated them as property. This contradiction forced political thinkers and activists to ask whether the Revolution’s principles applied to everyone, including people held in slavery. Option A is correct because it states the central question about the universal reach of liberty and equality. Options B, C and D concern monarchy, feudal obligations or church taxation; they do not address the conflict between revolutionary rights and colonial slavery. The question does not imply that the Revolution solved the contradiction immediately. Instead, it shows how revolutionary language gave abolitionists a powerful argument and exposed the limits of rights when they were restricted by race and colonial interests.

This is a Class 9 History question. Chapter: The French Revolution. Topic: The Abolition of Slavery.