Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Afro-Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana of Black African origin (as, formerly, as the Afro-Guianese they were the inhabitants of British Guiana). 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. (Note, however, that the emancipation process had provided tutelage by way of compensation, and that indentured labourers released by the termination of the indentured labour system received nothing, according to V.S.Naipaul.)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.. }
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- Afro-Guyanese abstract "Afro-Guyanese people are the inhabitants of Guyana of Black African origin (as, formerly, as the Afro-Guianese they were the inhabitants of British Guiana). 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. (Note, however, that the emancipation process had provided tutelage by way of compensation, and that indentured labourers released by the termination of the indentured labour system received nothing, according to V.S.Naipaul.)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.".