A second African convoy arrives aboard the Diane

A local order creates a special immigration commissioner, part of the administrative apparatus for recruiting and distributing contracted labor. After formerly enslaved people resisted plantation work...

A contract between the French maritime ministry and the firms Le Campion and Théroulde provides for the introduction of 3,000 Indian workers to French Guiana during 1855–1857. The agreement reflects a...

Order no. 698 sets local procedures for introducing Indian and African contracted workers, including the assignment of workers to employers and checks on contracts and transport. The same framework...

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...

The ship Sigisbert-Cézard reaches French Guiana with Indian workers recruited from Pondicherry and Karikal. The surviving memorial register lists 822 people embarked and 801 arrivals. The names and...

A colonial decision authorized the Marine administration to acquire 53 contracts from African workers brought by the Diane for prison services. This shows how the state itself used indenture to...

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...

The Joseph sailed from the West African coast carrying 340 African immigrants toward Cayenne. Later Guyanese accounts identify D’Chimbo among this group. The migration took place within a French...

The Joseph reached Cayenne after a 47-day crossing from the West African coast. A contemporary account later identified D’Chimbo as one of the African immigrants who arrived in 1858. He was assigned...

The Cayenne court sentenced D’Chimbo to imprisonment and police surveillance for assault, theft, and vagrancy. The judgment reflects how colonial authorities interpreted his actions through criminal...