Sinking, slowly, in the Amazonian forest, they finally settled in the end of the eighteenth century along side the riverbanks tributary of Lawa Maroni, now forming the border between French Guiana and Suriname.
The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is an arrondissement of France in the Guyane department in the Guyane region.
Born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana, Jozefzoon made his senior debut for Ajax during the 2010–11 season.
The prisoners were also separated by nationality, as there were special camps reserved for those from Indochina, and the Arabs often became guards.
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The first batch of prisoners left the Breton port of Brest for the Îles du Salut on 31 March 1852.
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When a ship (such as La Loire or La Martinière) arrived from Saint-Martin-de-Ré, the first order of the day was to separate the "chevaux de retour" (literally "returned horses", but meaning the escaped prisoners) and the recidivists from the rest, to send them to the Îles du Salut, from whose shores escape was considered impossible.
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On 22 November 1850, Napoleon III declared: "Six thousand condemned men in our prisons weigh heavily on our budget, becoming increasingly depraved and constantly menacing our society. I think it is possible to make the sentence of forced labour more effective, more moralising, less expensive and more humane by using it to further the progress of French colonisation."
Amerindians are located in a few villages on the outskirts of town: Balaté (Arawaks), Paddock, Prospérité, Terre Rouge, Espérance, Village Pierre (Kalinas).
In Suriname, they are a strong presence on the left bank of the Maroni River and on the banks of the Coppename River.