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Formerly enslaved people of French Guiana

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History slavery French Guyana 📍 French Guiana

Formerly enslaved people of French Guiana

Gender: Male

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Abolition takes legal effect in French Guiana

📅 10 August 1848

On 10 August 1848, the April abolition decree took legal effect in French Guiana, freeing people still enslaved under colonial law. About 12,943 people were recorded as enslaved in the colony in 1847....