The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, penned in 1789, declared 'slavery forever abolished'.

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The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 did not declare "slavery forever abolished." It focused on fundamental rights and equality before the law but did not address the issue of slavery, which was not abolished in French colonies until 1794, and then reestablished by Napoleon in 1802 before finally being abolished again in 1848.