Société des amis des archives et de l’histoire de la Guyane

Cayenne opens the Memorial to the Free and Citizens of 1848

📅 10 Yüni 2017

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...