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Association des professeurs d’histoire-géographie de Guyane

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Association des professeurs d’histoire-géographie de Guyane

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Cayenne opens the Memorial to the Free and Citizens of 1848

📅 10 June 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...