Yes Shaits...go learn yo history and educate yo self

       
       


Ive been called lots of things. Ignorant isn't one of them.

Is ignoramus one? 

Usually only by low class coolies so I've always taken that with a grain of dholl.

I consider myself privileged for the mere fact that I do not come from a Jagan worshipping coolie family.  I leave that to abbe mentally stunted Hindus. A truly worthless race if ever there was one.

Still reading this article, but I have a question.  Why most people settled in Demerara and Berbice and not Essequibo?

cause dem wuznt a trail blazin kinda people, too lazy to blast tru mountains and thick forests to mek roads etc

plus Bubice reminded them of Bihar

Because Berbice and Demerara were easily accessible along the coast, most of the sugar plantations were set up there, and that's where most people ended up living?

do u realize how much coastline E'quibo has?

During slavery there were lots of sugar and coffee estates on the Essequibo Coast but after Emancipation in 1834 the estates were closed down one by one.

In his book "The Negro Family in British Guiana", Raymond Smith writes: "... there have been no sugar estates on the Essequibo Coast since 1925 and therefore men have to travel to Demerara to find work. The whole of the Essequibo Coast is regarded as a depressed area, and there is certainly very little scope for finding employment there, with the result that there is both a marked seasonal migration and a certain amount of permanent migration to other parts of the colony, and particularly to Georgetown."

That was the situation in 1956 when Raymond Smith's book was published.

Here is an 1880 map showing estates on the Essequibo Coast:

This book (460 pages) is really interesting read if you interested in the history of Guyana.  Guyana was like the wild wild west in the 1700s and early 1800s.

 

So any body lives currently in the New River Triangle?

Ameriandians played a large part in our early history.  Why are they confined mainly to the interiors in present day?  Stormborn, do you know anything about this? 

1.  Those on the coast died from European diseases.

 

2.  Those in he interior didn't want to be enslaved.

They worked with the Europeans for a very long time so they should have been immune after a while.  I was surprised to learn that even the Caribs (any relationship to you?) were used to  fight other invaders.

I don't know if you know this, but by the early 19th century there was a belief that the Amerindian population would be extinct.  As more coastal people moved into the interior they brought their diseases with them.

 

This is why the coastal Amerindian population doesn't exist.  They either died, or they fled.  Some Amerindian had trading ties with the Europeans, and a few might have even worked with them.  But just as how the Native Americans were driven out of the East Coast in the USA, so were Amerindians driven out of the coastal areas.

 

Check it out for yourself.  Where ever there was sugar there were no Amerindians.

Did you see the link in my first post?  I think some Amerindians worked on plantations.  See the section on "Invasions of Guyana" 

Before Europeans contact with the natives, they called the Guianas coastline, "The Wild Coast." It must have been a scary place. As for British Guiana, had it not been for the Dutch, the land would not have been colonized. For the longest while, the Dutch battled the Portuguese for a Dutch colony. The Portuguese wanted no part of that arrangement. The Dutch were ousted from Brazil.

 

Then they organised themselves and invested in the colonizing of some regions on the Essequibo. They brought their knowledge of sugar cultivation from Brazil-they were successful at it. 

Very few worked on the plantations.  The vast majority fled the plantation regions to avoid slavery or is counterpart, and many also died of European diseases. 

 

Why do you think that the planters went to the expense of buying enslaved people from Africa, in Guyana's case, even more expensive as they had to be bought via Suriname or Curacao, with the additional mark up.

 

A question was asked about why Amerindians don't live in the settled parts of the coast.  I gave an answer.  Amerindians live in the Pomeroon region and not on the Essequibo Coast itself.  Where ever plantations existed Amerindians had no interest of being.