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seignet posted:

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Luckhoo was hoping for colonists, just like the Dutch, the French or the British Planters. 

And yuh see a racist at a time when there was only white racism. Maybe, blacks knew of racsim back them.

If all he wanted was colonists who could have gotten them more cheaply from over crowded islands like Barbados and Jamaica. I bet if recruited the Jamaicans would have preferred to go to another British colony than to take the risk of going to places like Costa Rica, Panama and Cuba.

But that was NOT Luckhoo's interest. He didn't want more colonists. He wanted MORE INDIANS.  His motivations were POLITICAL.  It was about the domination of Guyana by Indians.

 

Based on your thinking when the West Indians arrived in the UK in 1948 they should have arrived with the notion of pushing out the local British, because after all they were "British subjects".

Luckhoo and company begged the Indian gov't not to bar indenture because they wanted the Indian population to outstrip the black and colored population.  This because they wanted BG to become a colony dominated by Indians.  They didn't care about the fate of these people and the deplorable conditions many of them lived. 

At no point in all of this was there any mention of negotiating with the black/colored populations in order to improve for all nonwhite peoples in BG.  No he saw them as competitors.

FM
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