CTG schedules Cayenne Island and Montsinéry records for public release

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 French law established annual commemorations of the abolition of slavery in specified overseas territories and a national memorial framework. The law made public remembrance a matter of state...

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 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...

The calendar assigns the city of Cayenne registers to the week beginning 25 May. The civil records can recover individual names and kinship ties from the archive, while requiring readers to...

The calendar assigns the Macouria and Kourou registers to the week beginning 1 June. They form part of a larger publication that includes civil-status records and marronnage notices. Making...

The release calendar assigns the Sinnamary, Iracoubo, and Mana records to the week beginning 8 June. Their publication extends access beyond Cayenne and coastal plantation districts, helping make...

The territorial authority’s final scheduled release contains marronnage notices from 1821 to 1848. The notices document people who resisted enslavement by leaving plantations and communities of forced...