On 6 November 1833, the local administration in French Guiana implemented the new civil-registration system. Officials were instructed to record enslaved people’s births, marriages, and deaths. These registers are valuable evidence of lives and kinship, but they were created within a regime that treated people as property and continued to deny them legal freedom.
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What did the local act of 6 November 1833 implement?
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The local act implemented registers ordered by the royal ordinance.