Villas to let in Saint François
Here are our holiday villas offers in Saint François, Guadeloupe. We select each holiday villa proposed in order to offer you real estate in line with our quality charter. My home in Guadeloupe offers you also the possibility to rent a villa in Grande Terre but some in Saint Anne.
Holiday house rental at Saint François
Like many cities in Guadeloupe, the story of Saint-François was written in the cultures of cotton and sugar cane, greedy in human labor which then had little price. In order to get a clear idea of those things, you should know that in 1790, cotton occupied most of the cultivated soil. As early as 1835, sugar cane became the star culture, still employing a population of African slaves. With the abolition of slavery in 1848, St. Francis landed on the island of Indians to replace the liberated workforce. For a pittance, the "coolies-malabars", as they were then called these slaves barely disguised, paid the high price (often even that of their lives) for prosperous colonial agriculture post-slavery. Today, you can visit the Indian cemetery, just a few meters from the beach of Raisins-Clairs. It is here that the slaves were buried, apart from the "true" Christians, in the land not consecrated. If this section of Guadeloupean history interests you, we can not recommend you to visit the Memorial ACTe in Pointe-à-Pitre. From the beginnings of slavery to the slave trade of Africans for the cultivation of cotton and sugar cane, this museum traces with a surgical precision the details of this tormented history that has crushed so many destinies. And if you really want to become an expert on the subject, the Schoelcher museum, also in Pointe-à-Pitre, tells the story of the fight of a man predestined to live on his rents who engaged in a frantic fight for the defense of human rights; slaves and the abolition of these inhumane practices. Highly influenced by the British abolitionist movements, he became Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies of the Provisional Government of 1848 and President of the Abolition of Slavery. An exciting destination to discover with your family! Are you dreaming of a beach of blond sand barely touched by the waves of a turquoise blue sea? My Home In has reserved this little corner of paradise, just for you.
