Gertrude

Pompée’s maroon community is captured after years of autonomy

📅 5 August 1822

On 5 August 1822, a colonial military detachment captured Pompée and members of his maroon community at Maripa on the Comté River. Pompée and his companions had built a settlement beyond plantation...

Emancipation register records George Sloot

📅 1 July 1863