caribny posted:And don't bring up the "African tribal chiefs" because by 1833 most of the enslaved people were born in Guyana or other parts of the Caribbean so had nothing to do with the African slave trade.
Slaves had no birthright in the British Emipre, they were chattel. The Indian indentured were subjects of the British Empire-even though forced upon them but still alot better than the Muslim rule.
The Indian government/civil service gave permission to the indentureship program. And Gladstone had to apply for that permission. Indians were not grabbed and sold by indians.
I always suspected the great opposition to bringing indians to BG. And those Blacks/Coloreds must have raised quite a lot of objections. The colony being a crown colony, subjects of the British Empire were entitled to be anywhere the Bitish owned.
Yes, indians were not slaves, they were paid. And their pitance nutured a great community of East Indians.
And I wish Indians would own the sacrifice of their forefathers and not try to follow the Blacks in comparing the 1838 indians as being a somewhat kind of a slave.