Abstract
The colonization of French Guyana encountered serious difficulties on the part of the administering power due to the impossibility of recruiting white labor. The existing documentation in the overseas archives of Aix-en-Provence and Nantes show the infeasibility of sending Europeans to repopulate Guyana. Before which the French government considered the possibility of resorting to peasants from Madeira and the Canary Islands who were better adapted to the harsh climatic conditions of the colony.
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