seignet posted:ery.The same white ppl who fought for the end of slavery, also gave in the establishments of churches, schools, education supplies, teachers, etc, etc, etc. Maybe not millions of pounds(doan recall seying so, however I know you have imaginings) but what was given cost lots of money. And that effort made the Blacks into the Business Class until the Putagees rab alyuh of dat. The health sector, the teaching profession, police force, civil service etc, etc, all from th noble efforts of the abolitionists.
Until the Indians leff the plantations and the blacks educated them under the British Rule. Then Blacks start loosing dem jobs.
Under slavery, blacks had no rights.
More power to you today.
1. Slavery didn't end because white people became nice. It ended because the new industrial elites which emerged out of the Industrial Revolution wanted to destroy the old aristocracy whose wealth came out of the British West Indian sugar plantations. Ending slavery followed by ending protection for British West Indian sugar against cheap slave grown Cuban and Brazilian sugar bankrupted the old aristocracy paving the way for a new elite.
2. If these "charitable whites" so "cared" about the blacks they would have compensated them and provided access to good quality farm lands. Throughout the British West Indies the colonial authorities did their best to undermine the efforts of the former slaves to be viable.
3. The educational system was set up using the efforts of these former slaves. From the beginning almost all of the teachers were blacks. Former slaves demanded access to education and the churches aided their efforts in order to encourage them to join these denominations. The planters were hostile to educating blacks and in fact ridiculed educated blacks. Their dogma was "to educate a ni99er is to unfit him to be a slave". In fact to escape poverty education was seen as vital by the former slaves. which is why they achieved very high levels of basic literacy by the late 19thC.
4. The missionaries who arrived in Guyana in the late days of slavery were harassed and in some instances even killed by the British colonial authorities. They were blamed for the slave rebellions which occurred in the 1820s. It was these educated slaves who provided the first wave of teachers.
5. The Portuguese were notorious for robbing Indian indentures and in fact encouraged the excessive use of rum that even now still remains a scourge among rural Indians, especially those on the estates. The Portuguese despised Indians who they saw as losers for remaining on the estates instead of moving forward as they had.