François and Gervais leave Mondésir together

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...

Caroline, identified as 31 in the notice, left her enslaver’s home on 16 March 1842. The report does not specify where she went or what happened next; it documents a decision to leave the immediate...

The colonial notice records Coralie leaving Cayenne on 19 March 1842. As with other marronnage advertisements, the source’s purpose was administrative identification; reading it against that grain...

Achille, assigned to the colonial domain’s river crossing at Kourou, left on 4 June 1844 and was reported to have returned on his own on 22 July. The record does not explain his decision to return;...

On 4 March 1848, the provisional government created a commission to prepare abolition. This political opening followed the February Revolution and decades of resistance by enslaved people,...

On 27 April 1848, the provisional government decreed the abolition of slavery in all French colonies and possessions. The decree prohibited corporal punishment and the sale of people, and provided for...

On 10 June 1848, Commissioner-General André-Aimé Pariset proclaimed the abolition decree in French Guiana. The proclamation made the decree public in the colony; it did not mean emancipation took...

On 10 August 1848, the April abolition decree took legal effect in French Guiana, freeing people still enslaved under colonial law. About 12,943 people were recorded as enslaved in the colony in 1847....