Historical Person

Captain Chevalier

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📍 French Guiana

Captain Chevalier

Gender: Male

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The Diane brings the first documented African labor convoy to Cayenne

📅 6 January 1856

The Diane reached Cayenne with 308 African workers recruited along the West African coast. Historian Serge Daget reports the workers were engaged for six years. This post-abolition recruitment aimed...

A second African convoy arrives aboard the Diane

📅 20 June 1856

The Diane returned to Cayenne with 322 more African contract workers. The two voyages of January and June 1856 brought 630 people in total. The colonial labor program treated these people as a...