Slave ancestry

The origins of the habitation Belmont date back to the early colonisation of Guadeloupe. A vestige of the habitation is a slave cell of 4 m² from the eighteenth century.

The habitation la Grivelière is a large coffee plantation dating back to the late eighteenth century.

The habitation Vanibel was a plantation specialised in coffee, bananas and manioc, which was composed of a hundred slaves.

The habitation Beausoleil is located in Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe. It supposedly belonged to the family of Montéran since the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

The Fort Delgrès is located in Guadeloupe, in Basse-Terre. It is the remnant of the events of 1802, witness of the fight against slavery in Guadeloupe led by the officer Louis Delgrès.

The slave cemetery of the Anse Sainte-Marguerite dates back to the colonial era (eighteenth and nineteenth century).

Inaugurated by the President of the Republic in May 2015, the Memorial Act (the Caribbean Centre of expressions and memory for the slave trade and slavery) was built on the site of the former Darbouss