caribny posted:alena06 posted:I? The Indians can argue that they deserve land due to Indenturship. The other races can also have valid arguments. This sounds like opening a can of worms.
The contract made provision for lands. Whether they actually received can be debated.
When slavery ended the slave masters were compensated and the entire socio economic system of 19th C colonial Guyana (and the rest of the British West Indies) was to punish the freed people for being bold enough to demand improved living conditions.
Please don't compare indentureship and slavery. Argue on the basis of the fact that it is water under the bridge and chatter about reparations at this point is futile.
Villages were created for non-returning East Indian Indentured,they got 99 yr leases for the lands,my grand parents had such land.