EVENT INFORMATION

6
Novèmber
1833

A local act establishes enslaved people’s civil registers in the colony

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📅 6 Novèmber 1833 📍 Guyana Franses

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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Colonial administration of French Guiana

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colonial civil registrars

district commandants