National Memorial to the Victims of Slavery
With the National Overseas Archives
France ✧ 2025-2026
Project
Creation of a list of freed slaves which will be engraved on the monument of the national memorial to the victims of slavery installed in the Trocadero gardens in 2026.
Images : Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
Corpus
27,000 pages of civil registration records from the municipalities of Guadeloupe (1800-1848) and Martinique (1824-1904).
Processing workflow
- Training the models via an annotation campaign on Callico
- Detection of pages present in images (generic segmentation model)
- Detection of records present on each page (specific segmentation model)
- Extracting information for each record (specific information extraction model)
- Export of CSV files that will be integrated into the database identifying people freed in 1848
Article: GuyaMag Report - I Write Your Name
By Floriane Jean-Gilles, published in GuyaMag No. 141, Jan-Feb 2026
The national memorial to the victims of slavery, scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2027, has reached a new decisive stage: the list of names has been officially closed since January 5.
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