The Berryer arrives in French Guiana with 306 workers, the final ship in the twenty-convoy migration recorded between 1856 and 1877. More than 8,000 people crossed from India and the Caribbean to work in plantations and gold fields. The end of new ship arrivals did not erase the lasting social consequences of indenture or end labor inequality in the colony.
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How many people were recorded as arriving on the Nicolas-Poussin in 1864?
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The archive-based ship chronology records 277 embarked and 275 arrivals.
The Berryer was the final Indian indenture ship in the recorded French Guiana sequence.
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It arrived in February 1877, the final ship in the twenty-convoy chronology.