Hugh Jorgan posted:Prashad posted:The numbers do not lie. There were 40 East Indian women to every 100 East Indian men that came as indentured servants to British Guiana. Those 40 East Indian women were also being wooed by male Chinese Indentured Servants who had few Chinese females with them. Similarly, many of the male white plantation staff wanted these East Indian women as mistresses. With the romeo pressure on East Indian women and their small numbers, it was African women in British Guiana who became the partners of many male East Indian indentured servants.
No one is disputing there may have been some intermingling. If you know your history you would know there was animosity between the indentured immigrants and the freed slaves. You said it was one African woman and a single Indian who started the Guyanese East Indian Race.
With the arrival of the indentured immigrants, the plantation owners had a cheaper labor source. They paid the immigrants less than the freed slaves were asking for to return to the fields. As such, the former slaves saw the indentured immigrants as stealing their jobs.