France establishes local annual commemorations of slavery’s abolition

France and Britain sign a convention regulating the recruitment and treatment of Indian workers for French colonies. It followed British objections to French recruitment of Africans through the...

The Parmentier arrives with 533 workers embarked from Pondicherry and Karikal and 514 recorded as arriving. The voyage shows that the 1861 convention’s protections existed alongside continuing...

The Nicolas-Poussin arrives from Pondicherry and Karikal with 277 workers embarked and 275 recorded as arriving. This later convoy shows that the indenture system persisted beyond its first arrivals...

The Duguay-Trouin arrives from Pondicherry and Karikal with 412 workers embarked and 400 recorded as arriving. The archive-based chronology notes that officials refused immediate landing and moved the...

The Berryer arrives in French Guiana with 306 workers, the final ship in the twenty-convoy migration recorded between 1856 and 1877. More than 8,000 people crossed from India and the Caribbean to work...

A national decree set 10 June as the annual date commemorating abolition in French Guiana. The date recalls Commissioner André-Aimé Pariset’s 1848 proclamation. Formal recognition created a...

The memorial was inaugurated in Cayenne on the local abolition commemoration day. Its 42 stone pillars bear 13,043 names of people freed under the 1848 decree. Naming the formerly enslaved in a public...

The Collectivité Territoriale de Guyane began a scheduled public release of civil records of enslaved people and marronnage declarations for 1834–1848. The schedule starts with Mapa, Oyapock, and...

The planned third release covers birth, marriage, and death records for enslaved people in the Cayenne Island and Montsinéry districts. These records make family relations more visible, although their...

The release calendar assigns the Tonnégrande and Tour-de-l’Île registers to the week beginning 18 May. By making local records accessible, the project supports research into enslaved people’s family...