📅 12 February 1838
The treaty signed in Port-au-Prince on 12 February 1838 recognized Haiti as a free, sovereign, and independent state while restructuring the indemnity imposed in 1825. Its first article fixed the...
📅 4 March 1831
The law of 4 March 1831 strengthened the prohibition on the French slave trade and set penalties for fitting out or participating in trafficking voyages. Ending the legal trade did not end slavery...
📅 4 September 1833
A royal ordinance dated 4 September 1833 required colonial authorities to register births, marriages, and deaths among enslaved people in French Guiana. The measure generated records that now help...
