An ordinance announces the pardon granted to Pompée

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...

A 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...

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...

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...

The 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...

The 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...

A 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...