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 descendants and researchers recover names and family histories. Yet registration was conducted by a slaveholding administration and did not change people’s legal status or end their exploitation.
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What is the significance and limitation of the 1833 civil-registration ordinance?
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Registration can help recover names and kinship, but the law left people enslaved.