Other Guianese begin to demand a more…

Other Guianese begin to demand a more representative political system in the 1800s.

By the late 1880s, pressure from the new Afro-Guyanese middle class is building for constitutional reform.

In particular, there are calls to convert the Court of Policy into an assembly with ten elected members, to ease voter qualifications, and to abolish the College of Electors.

Reforms are resisted by the planters, led by Henry K. Davson, owner of a large plantations.

In London the planters have allies in the West India Committee and  in the West India Association of Glasgow also, both presided over by proprietors with major interests in British Guiana.