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12
Novèmber
1851

Colonial bank law is promulgated in French Guiana

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📅 12 Novèmber 1851 📍 Guyana Franses

The 1851 colonial-bank law is promulgated in French Guiana. Although proponents described colonial banks as a possible source of loans for new freedpeople to acquire land, the banking framework also supported plantation credit and agricultural production. A law’s stated potential should not be mistaken for evidence that formerly enslaved families actually received land or loans.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

French Guiana colonial administration

formerly enslaved people

plantation proprietors

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French colonial administration

colonial bank system