Afro-Guyanese (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Afro-Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana of Black African origin. When planters made land or passage home available to East Indians as part of the terms of indentured labour in the late 19th century, when they had denied land to the Africans as emancipated slaves several decades earlier, Afro-Guianese resentment of other colonial ethnic groups was reinforced. By the early twentieth century, the majority of the urban population of the country was African Guianese. Many Afro Guianese living in villages had migrated to the towns in search of work. Until the 1930s, Afro Guianese, especially those of mixed African and European descent, comprised the bulk of the nonwhite professional class. During the 1930s, as the Indian Guianese began to enter the middle class in large numbers, they began to compete with Afro Guianese for professional positions.