Yacine Biram, a Senegalese woman brought to Guiana under a six-year labor contract, married M’Bisame Diouf, who had arrived in 1854 on the same ship. Their marriage documents family formation among...
After completing her six-year contract, Yacine Biram boarded the Lawrence for return across the Atlantic. She was among a very small share of African contract workers in Guiana who were able to...