In 1786 Marquis de Lafayette bought a concession located near the creek Gabrielle (common Roura ). The Marquis de La Fayette was campaigning for the gradual emancipation of blacks. The purpose of the abolitionist was to spare the gradual emancipation of slaves in the plantation through a system of education that would lead them to act without orders. It was a kind of sharecropping, where a portion of the proceeds of their work was limited. Retained by duties in Paris, his wife and two successive directors (Richeprey and Geneste) that La Fayette entrusts the management and implementation of the gradual emancipation of slaves who are under their command . Housing prosperous and even bought the La Fayette area of La Gabrielle. Unfortunately, it collides with other settlers on the fate of slaves and land problems are that the company fails.
In 1794 the property of the Marquis de Lafayette passed to the State.
Location : common Roura
Today, all that remains are remnants of this house, the wood having been destroyed by time.
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The remains of Housing 
A house: what is it? The European party in a colony to exploit the land, the "settler", is called in French colonies in America: a " capita.
In his "home", he must produce what the French farmers can not grow in France hex: tropical crops that grow in a climate always warm and humid. This is where the colonial economy is applied, and where the slave system is used for production.
Housing may be small (one master with 2-5 slaves), or large (up to 300 slaves).
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