Elisée and Laurent leave La Jeune-Cléomène

The archive transcription records Pornic and Machecoul leaving the same habitation on 24 October 1827. The original notice classifies them using colonial-era categories; this account avoids treating...

The 8 January 1830 notice listed people who had escaped from Cayenne, Macouria, Mont-Sinéry, and other districts, including Bomba, Delphine, Boudiou, and François. The colonial newspaper framed them...

The law of 4 March 1831 strengthened the prohibition on the French slave trade and set penalties for fitting out or participating in trafficking voyages. Ending the legal trade did not end slavery...

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...

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....

A notice records Joseph-Poulin leaving the Sautro habitation in Tour-de-l’Île on 19 January 1839. The archive preserves the departure through the colonial administration’s effort to locate and...

The colonial notice lists Joseph, described as Creole, as having left the Tour-de-l’Île district on 23 January 1839. The source names the enslaver but provides no explanation from Joseph, so the...

The archive records Thésée leaving Cayenne on 23 January 1839. The notice identifies her through the person claiming ownership; recording women’s named acts of flight helps recover their presence in a...

Alexis is recorded as leaving Cayenne on 5 February 1839. A notice published by the colonial administration sought to identify and recapture him; the surviving source is therefore evidence of both...

The notice records Maxime, described by the colonial source as Creole and aged eighteen, leaving La Providence in Tour-de-l’Île on 6 February 1839. His age and the place of departure locate the act...