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De l'esclavage et du bagne en Guyane française

Danielle Donet-Vincent

Abstracts

Danielle DONET-VINCENT, About slavery and the penal colony in French Guyana In this paper, the author shows that the abolition of slavery in 1848 and the sending of the first transported convicts to Guyana are two events which are not only intrinsically linked but are one and the same: the legislators assimilated the convict to the slave. It must be underlined that those sentenced to life were volunteers for Guyana. But religious supervision, discipline and above all the disappearance of the individual behind an official number showed a will to deprive the convicts their dignity, transforming them into labouring tools attached to the soil of Guyana, but with no right to it. Even those released with a concession were still submitted to permanent control of their private deeds and were under constant threat of having their lands and cattle taken from them.

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Mots-clés :

Esclavage, Bagne, Guyane
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References

Electronic reference

Danielle Donet-Vincent, “De l'esclavage et du bagne en Guyane française”Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle [Online], 18 | 1999, Online since 10 September 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rh19/149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rh19.149

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