Further escape notices record Adonis and Tilsikan

The National Convention decreed abolition in French colonies on 4 February 1794, during the Haitian Revolution and amid enslaved people’s uprisings across the Atlantic. The decision recognized a...

On 14 June 1794, civil commissioner Nicolas-Georges Jeannet-Oudin transmitted the Convention’s abolition decree to the governor of French Guiana for diffusion. This local act ended slavery in law...

On 7 December 1802, the consuls issued an order that reimposed slavery in French Guiana through a system euphemistically called “quarter conscription.” It treated Black people on plantations or in...

Governor Victor Hugues issued a local regulation on 25 April 1803 implementing the consular order. It restored the plantation “police” of the pre-revolutionary regime, tied people to plantations,...

A 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...

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...

On 28 August 1822, Governor Pierre-Clément de Laussat suspended Pompée’s death sentence and asked the king to grant a pardon. The decision did not recognize the right of enslaved people to leave...

An ordinance of 9 April 1823 announced the royal pardon for Pompée. Although his life was spared, the pardon was not emancipation: colonial officials retained power over his fate and that of the other...

On 19 April 1823, administrator Baron Milius issued a detailed ordinance to regulate and punish marronnage. It required owners to report escapes, authorized armed pursuit, allowed shooting fugitives...

A 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...