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Jesuit Missionaries and Enslavement at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: An Assessment from the Loyola Plantation in French Guiana

Zocha Houle-Wierzbicki
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Raphaelle Lussier-Piette
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Antoine Loyer Rousselle
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Yannick Le Roux
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Abstract We present an overview of the archaeological research carried out on a sugar plantation operated by the Jesuits in French Guiana. The Jesuits’ production was exported to Europe to provide funds to develop their missions among Native people living in French Guiana and Amazonia. We present a brief history of the plantation and discuss the place the missionaries occupied in the colonial venture and their role in the economy of the colony. Loyola was a large and successful plantation compared with other plantations in French Guiana, and its success rested on the exploitation of enslaved labor. Recent research on the area covered by the plantation storehouse, its chapel, and the forecourt in front has allowed us to reassess our initial interpretation of the chronology and development of the plantation. In doing so, we realized that the Jesuits rigorously conformed to the architectural principles of the Enlightenment to symbolize their prestige in the colony.

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hal-04180204 , version 1 (11-08-2023)

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Réginald Auger, Jean-François Guay, Zocha Houle-Wierzbicki, Raphaelle Lussier-Piette, Antoine Loyer Rousselle, et al.. Jesuit Missionaries and Enslavement at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century: An Assessment from the Loyola Plantation in French Guiana. The Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2021, 8 (3), pp.408-429. ⟨10.1163/22141332-0803P004⟩. ⟨hal-04180204⟩

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