Afro-Guyanese people

Afro-Guyanese people are inhabitants of Guyana who are of Sub-Saharan African descent, generally descended from slaves brought to the Guianas to work on sugar plantations.

After the abolition of slavery in the British Empire, Afro-Guyanese people come together to develop small villages.

They are not given land to compensate for their labor, unlike future immigrant groups.

When planters make land or passage home available to East Indians as part of the terms of indentured labor in the late nineteenth century, given that they had denied land to the Africans as emancipated slaves several decades earlier, it creates tension among the ethnic groups.

By the early twentieth century, the majority of the urban population of the country is Afro-Guyanese.

Many Afro-Guyanese people living in villages have migrated to the towns in search of work.

Until the 1930s, Afro-Guyanese people, especially those of mixed descent, comprise the bulk of the non-white professional class.

During the 1930s, as Indo-Guyanese begin to enter the middle class in large numbers, and begin to compete with Afro-Guyanese for professional positions.

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