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Cayenne publishes notices naming people who escaped enslavement
📅 30 Januari 1822A notice dated 30 January 1822 listed Linval, Nina, Pamphile, and others who had fled their enslavers. The official newspaper printed names alongside age, origin, and physical description to help...
Further escape notices record Adonis and Tilsikan
📅 25 Juni 1822A notice dated 25 June 1822 reported that Adonis had escaped and named Thomas, known as Tilsikan, as a fugitive from the Petit-Cayenne work gang. These brief, hostile administrative descriptions...
Premier leaves enslavement in Cayenne
📅 22 September 1827A colonial notice records Premier, described in the source as Creole and associated with Égérie, leaving Cayenne on 22 September 1827. The archive preserves an enslaver-facing report, not Premier’s...
Lindor, Germinal, and Glorieux flee together from Macouria
📅 23 September 1827The notice reports that Lindor, Germinal, and Glorieux left the Macouria habitation of Marchal together on 23 September 1827. Their shared flight is evidence of collective action, though the...
Faustin leaves Cayenne
📅 25 September 1827The archive transcription records Faustin leaving Cayenne on 25 September 1827. The notice labels him with a colonial-origin category and says he spoke Portuguese; those labels come from the...
Jean-Noël, a carpenter, leaves Cayenne
📅 26 September 1827A notice names Jean-Noël, a Creole carpenter, as having left Cayenne on 26 September 1827. The craft detail indicates skilled work in the enslaved population; the notice itself chiefly served colonial...
Césalpin leaves the Moulin-à-Vent habitation
📅 6 Oktober 1827The colonial notice records Césalpin leaving the Moulin-à-Vent habitation on 6 October 1827. The archive transcription reproduces the owner’s identifying description; this entry instead foregrounds...
Noël leaves Cayenne
📅 7 Oktober 1827Noël is recorded as leaving Cayenne on 7 October 1827. The notice was issued by the colonial administration at the request of an enslaver and includes personal identifying details, illustrating how...
Four people flee the Quartier-Général habitation together
📅 18 Oktober 1827César, Adonis, Vulcain, and La Fortune are named in a notice as having left the Quartier-Général habitation together on 18 October 1827. Their joint flight documents collective resistance; the...
Pornic and Machecoul leave the Charles Couy and Thibault habitation
📅 24 Oktober 1827The archive transcription records Pornic and Machecoul leaving the same habitation on 24 October 1827. The original notice classifies them using colonial-era categories; this account avoids treating...
The official gazette records escapes across several districts
📅 8 Januari 1830The 8 January 1830 notice listed people who had escaped from Cayenne, Macouria, Mont-Sinéry, and other districts, including Bomba, Delphine, Boudiou, and François. The colonial newspaper framed them...
Elisée and Laurent leave La Jeune-Cléomène
📅 17 Januari 1839Elisée and Laurent are recorded as leaving the La Jeune-Cléomène habitation in Tonnégrande together on 17 January 1839. The notice identifies them through the heirs of Thérèse Pansier, showing how...
Joseph-Poulin leaves the Sautro habitation
📅 19 Januari 1839A notice records Joseph-Poulin leaving the Sautro habitation in Tour-de-l’Île on 19 January 1839. The archive preserves the departure through the colonial administration’s effort to locate and...
Joseph leaves the Tour-de-l’Île district
📅 23 Januari 1839The colonial notice lists Joseph, described as Creole, as having left the Tour-de-l’Île district on 23 January 1839. The source names the enslaver but provides no explanation from Joseph, so the...
Thésée leaves Cayenne
📅 23 Januari 1839The archive records Thésée leaving Cayenne on 23 January 1839. The notice identifies her through the person claiming ownership; recording women’s named acts of flight helps recover their presence in a...
Alexis leaves Cayenne
📅 5 Februari 1839Alexis is recorded as leaving Cayenne on 5 February 1839. A notice published by the colonial administration sought to identify and recapture him; the surviving source is therefore evidence of both...
Maxime leaves La Providence
📅 6 Februari 1839The notice records Maxime, described by the colonial source as Creole and aged eighteen, leaving La Providence in Tour-de-l’Île on 6 February 1839. His age and the place of departure locate the act...
Chérubin leaves Cayenne
📅 12 Februari 1839A notice names Chérubin as having left Cayenne on 12 February 1839. It offers no first-person account or motive; the event is included as a documented act of marronnage, not as a complete biography.
Lucile leaves Cayenne
📅 3 Maart 1842Lucile, approximately 28 years old in the notice, is recorded as leaving Cayenne on 3 March 1842. Her appearance in the archive is mediated by the colonial advertisement and an owner’s claim, but...
Caroline leaves her enslaver’s household
📅 16 Maart 1842Caroline, identified as 31 in the notice, left her enslaver’s home on 16 March 1842. The report does not specify where she went or what happened next; it documents a decision to leave the immediate...
Coralie leaves Cayenne
📅 19 Maart 1842The colonial notice records Coralie leaving Cayenne on 19 March 1842. As with other marronnage advertisements, the source’s purpose was administrative identification; reading it against that grain...
François and Gervais leave Mondésir together
📅 14 November 1842François and Gervais left the Mondésir habitation at Macouria together on 14 November 1842. The notice describes one as a field worker and the other as a fisher, showing enslaved labor’s varied...
Achille leaves the colonial river crossing at Kourou
📅 4 Juni 1844Achille, assigned to the colonial domain’s river crossing at Kourou, left on 4 June 1844 and was reported to have returned on his own on 22 July. The record does not explain his decision to return;...