The article aims to show how the legal issues raised by the Enlightenment had been changed during the Revolution and how they were embodies in the colonies. This is done via the use of the articles, letters, proclamations, debates in the National Constituent Assembly and the comparison of these materials with the principles of the Enlightenment. We show that the metropolis policy was ambiguous and inconsistent towards the colonies. There were contradictions among the colonialists themselves and within the metropolis and these contradictions concerned mainly human rights and management issues. We conclude that the French Revolution principles had to fight against themselves. The colonists opposed against the implementation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen principles towards mulattoes and negroes. The colonists denied them the natural right to freedom and the equal rights with the white population. In turn, the metropolis regarded mulattos as a barrier that could be used to oppose the colonists. At the same time, the colonists demanded the right to represent the colony in the National Constituent Assembly as it was stated in the Declaration.