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 resisting capture, and offered financial rewards for capture or death. It also prescribed imprisonment and forced public labor for captured fugitives. The document makes colonial violence visible while the repeated escapes it targeted attest to ongoing resistance.
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What did the 19 April 1823 anti-marronnage ordinance authorize?
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The ordinance criminalized escape and created coercive capture mechanisms, including the use of armed detachments.
The 19 April 1823 ordinance protected maroons from armed pursuit and punishment.
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It regulated and intensified repression, authorizing armed searches and severe penalties.