Joseph leaves the Tour-de-l’Île district

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....

Elisée and Laurent are recorded as leaving the La Jeune-Cléomène habitation in Tonnégrande together on 17 January 1839. The notice identifies them through the heirs of Thérèse Pansier, showing how...

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 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...

A notice names Chérubin as having left Cayenne on 12 February 1839. It offers no first-person account or motive; the event is included as a documented act of marronnage, not as a complete biography.

Lucile, approximately 28 years old in the notice, is recorded as leaving Cayenne on 3 March 1842. Her appearance in the archive is mediated by the colonial advertisement and an owner’s claim, but...