Reply to "Politics have driven mistrust and falsehood in Guyanese society."

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ksazma posted:

Their subdivision on the sugar estate was called Nig*er yard and the a The Indians understood that concept a lot better than the Africans. There is a good chance the Africans didn't really want to work but were hoping to just extort the plantation owners. Their plan back firing is their loss not the innocent Indians fault.

Funny thing this. By the 1880s when Indo indentures were well entrenched into Guyana they began to see how they were being screwed so also began to protest against the estate owners. When they did the owners simply recruited starving Islanders and paid them scab wages to undermine the Indians. In a few instances the Indians even attacked these scabs.

What goes around comes around.

8/5/195:10 PM

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