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Collectivité Territoriale de Guyane
Collectivité Territoriale de Guyane
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Cayenne opens the Memorial to the Free and Citizens of 1848
📅 10 June 2017The memorial was inaugurated in Cayenne on the local abolition commemoration day. Its 42 stone pillars bear 13,043 names of people freed under the 1848 decree. Naming the formerly enslaved in a public...
The territorial authority begins a scheduled release of slave registers
📅 27 April 2020The Collectivité Territoriale de Guyane began a scheduled public release of civil records of enslaved people and marronnage declarations for 1834–1848. The schedule starts with Mapa, Oyapock, and...
CTG schedules Cayenne Island and Montsinéry records for public release
📅 11 May 2020The planned third release covers birth, marriage, and death records for enslaved people in the Cayenne Island and Montsinéry districts. These records make family relations more visible, although their...
CTG schedules Tonnégrande and Tour-de-l’Île registers for public release
📅 18 May 2020The release calendar assigns the Tonnégrande and Tour-de-l’Île registers to the week beginning 18 May. By making local records accessible, the project supports research into enslaved people’s family...
CTG schedules Cayenne city registers for public release
📅 25 May 2020The calendar assigns the city of Cayenne registers to the week beginning 25 May. The civil records can recover individual names and kinship ties from the archive, while requiring readers to...
CTG schedules Macouria and Kourou registers for public release
📅 1 June 2020The calendar assigns the Macouria and Kourou registers to the week beginning 1 June. They form part of a larger publication that includes civil-status records and marronnage notices. Making...
CTG schedules the Sinnamary, Iracoubo, and Mana registers for public release
📅 8 June 2020The release calendar assigns the Sinnamary, Iracoubo, and Mana records to the week beginning 8 June. Their publication extends access beyond Cayenne and coastal plantation districts, helping make...
CTG releases marronnage notices covering 1821–1848
📅 10 June 2020The territorial authority’s final scheduled release contains marronnage notices from 1821 to 1848. The notices document people who resisted enslavement by leaving plantations and communities of forced...
CTG announces a public conference on African contract workers
📅 13 October 2022The territorial authority announced a conference on African women and men who were brought to Guiana under labor contracts after the 1848 abolition. The public event reflects a shift in historical...