Talk:British Guiana

Untitled
This has far too much on postal stamps and hardly anything about the colony itself.

Source for someone to mine
Interesting information from UK archives. Zerotalk 00:41, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Needs content about people
Added content about indigenous people and Africans, but it needs more. What was the population at the end of each century? How many people were freed when slavery was abolished? What were the demographics then and at the time of independence?Parkwells (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Lack of data about government
Hard to understand the scale of things - how many seats were there for the Councils and later elected/nominated governments? What were the later property qualifications - what proportion of people got to vote?Parkwells (talk) 19:12, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced lead regarding import of slaves under British rule
Currently quoted as "As the British developed the colony for sugarcane plantations, they imported many Africans as slave labour". Any factual links as to what "many" might be, considering the colonies were not officially ceded to the UK until 1814, somewhat after the Slave Trade Act 1807? No mention of this in the History of Guyana article. Harami2000 (talk) 09:58, 7 August 2017 (UTC)


 * F.Y.I. slavery did not end in the British West Indies until 1834. Due to strong opposition by the landholders -- see Emancipation Day or Moyne Commission.  None the less someone might need to source the info. CaribDigita (talk) 17:42, 7 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Missed your reply, apologies. Yes, slavery in the BWI did not end until 1834 but the article currently states that more slaves were IMPORTED after British Guiana was "officially ceded to the United Kingdom in 1814", which would have been in contradiction to the Slave Trade Act 1807. Any sources for this? Harami2000 (talk) 11:51, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

while slavery was still legal, the slave trade was VERY illegal at this point in time, Britain was literally sinking slaver ships so I find it hard to believe the state was still importing slaves150.107.172.172 (talk) 06:00, 23 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Under the 1807 Act the transportation of slaves became a capital offence and ship's captains and officers on ships caught carrying slaves faced being summarily hanged from the capturing vessel's yard arms. See also the West Africa Squadron.

Oil!
This article needs major updating. Since oil was discovered in 2015, Guiana promises to go from one of the poorest countries in South American to one of the richest in the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill3857 (talk • contribs) 12:42, 1 February 2020 (UTC)