EVENT INFORMATION

6
Yanüari
1856

The Diane brings the first documented African labor convoy to Cayenne

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📅 6 Yanüari 1856 📍 Guyana Franses

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 to supply labor after formerly enslaved people left plantations. Available records describe them as contracted immigrants; they do not establish that each person freely chose the conditions or understood the contract.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

African workers

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Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French colonial administration

Diane