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Organization Timeline
Apprenticeship begins in British Guiana
📅 1 August 1834On 1 August 1834, the abolition law took effect in British Guiana and formerly enslaved people were reclassified as apprentices. Most adults were compelled to work a set number of hours for former...
Essequibo workers resist the continuation of coerced labor
📅 3 August 1834On 3 August 1834, workers on the Essequibo coast resisted plantation demands under the new apprenticeship system. Some understood the August 1 change to mean freedom from plantation labor; colonial...
The first Indian indentured laborers arrive at Highbury
📅 5 May 1838On 5 May 1838, the ship Whitby brought the first Indian indentured workers to British Guiana, landing at Highbury in Berbice. The National Trust also names the Hesperus in its account of the first...
Apprenticeship ends and legal emancipation takes effect
📅 1 August 1838On 1 August 1838, apprenticeship ended in British Guiana and formerly enslaved people became legally free. Their freedom followed generations of resistance and the 1834 protests against continued...
Fatel Razack brings the first Indian indentured workers to Trinidad
📅 30 May 1845On 30 May 1845, the Futtle Rozack, commonly known as the Fatel Razack, arrived in Port of Spain carrying 225 adults from India. They were contracted to work on sugar plantations after emancipation....