Clem Seecharan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 21 May
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where Indian indentured laborers, in fact, other forms of indentured laborers, including Madeira and Portuguese indentured labor and Chinese indentured labor.
But certainly not the enslaved or the freed people.
The compensation, ironically, was referred to those who owned the enslaved Africans.
And they were being compensated for their property.
And enslaved people were not human beings.
They were property in the same way, the oxen and the mules.
And it was huge sums of money, as I understand.
Well, it was over 20 million pounds.
It's certainly for Caribbean planters.
And that was a vast amount of money in its time.
There's some gradation here in terms of the treatment of indentured labourers.
It's not a uniform thing.
And the first indentured labourers who were taken to British Guyana arrived there on the 5th of May, 1838.
even before the final day of the formal end of slavery.
So we're dealing here with a society that was still a slave society.
And obviously, the attitudes of planters, in spite of the fact that they were facing this potential loss of labour, the attitude of planters was still the attitude shaped by
by being slave masters.
So I think the initial experience was quite awful.
And it was primarily because of that experience in British Guyana with the first two ships that arrived there in 1838 that the system was suspended for a number of years.
And it wasn't restarted again in the Caribbean.
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