Marronnage Database — Runaway Slave Advertisements of Saint-Domingue

The marronnage database at marronnage.info contains 22,485 advertisements for runaway enslaved people, primarily from the Affiches américaines, the official gazette of the French colony of Saint-Domingue, published from 1766 to 1791. Created by Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec (Université de Sherbrooke) as part of the project 'Le Marronnage dans le monde atlantique: Sources et trajectoires de vie,' it is the largest surviving corpus of individual-level data about enslaved people in Saint-Domingue. Each advertisement records name, African nation/ethnicity, age, physical description, branding marks, skills and trades, owner's name and location, duration of absence, and reward offered. The database constitutes the primary microhistorical evidence base for reconstructing the lives, identities, and acts of resistance of the enslaved population.