CTG schedules Cayenne city registers for public release

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...

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...

The territorial authority announced a conference on African women and men who were brought to Guiana under labor contracts after the 1848 abolition. The public event reflects a shift in historical...