caribny posted:kp posted:These land settlements were established by using the return money owing to the Indians, it was not for Free. Sorry to say the Black slaves had no such deal, they were treated as cattle by the White Massa.
It was used in lieu of sending them back to India. Those who wished to return to India did so. Those who wanted to remain in Guyana had a start that freed slaves didn't get.
The former slaves had to use up all of their earnings to acquire the lands, had to face estates flooding their lands, had to pay taxes so that the planters could import indentures from Madeira and China, and then from India. The plan of course was to prevent an independent class of successful black petty traders and small farmers developing, because they saw this as a threat at a political and economic level. They wanted these villages to fail and passed all sorts of laws.
Now how about after working FREE for generations, and destroying their family structures, if these former enslaved peoples received what some Indo indentures did?
Btw when the former slaves were economically undermined they were used as scab labor when the Indo indentures began to rebel. They also brought in Bajans for that purpose and at one estate the Indo workers assaulted the Bajans in their rage. The planters played each off against the other, beginning the zero sum game that we still play today.
Blackman was not the only race who suffered separation of families. Indians suffer the same.
Wasnt flooding the land had to do with making the land more rich. Guysuco does that all the time after every crop.
BTW, what does Indias have to do with purchases of blacks as slave and separation of families. Ayo picking on the wrong people. Go to the British. Ayo claimed to have the best huducation and the best job in the public service.