EVENT INFORMATION

4
Sèptèmber
1833

Royal ordinance orders civil registration of enslaved people

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📅 4 Sèptèmber 1833 📍 Guyana Franses

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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Louis-Philippe I

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French Crown

colonial civil registrars