Guiana 1838 Cinema English language, no Dutch subtitles. Friday | 21:15 - 23:15 | Beach Stadium Tonight, hopefully by moonlight under a star filled sky, the feature film ´Guiana 1838´ by director Rohit Jagessar will be shown. The ´white slavery´ of Indian contract workers in Guyana shows many similarities with the social abuses that contract workers in Surinam underwent after the abolition of slavery. Synopsis: The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company in Calcutta, a part of the East India Company, to recruit Coolies from India to fill the resulting labor void. The company hires Sinha, a fierce small-timer to sell dreams of El Dorado to the unsuspecting, impoverished Coolies who are signed to five-year contracts as indentured servants. Upon the Coolies´ arrival in British Guiana in 1838, the British planters promptly enslave them to ensure that the growth of sugar in the British West Indies will continue uninterrupted. John Scoble of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society arrives at the colony a year later to discover a new form of slavery, this time over the backs of Indians.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:56:51 +0000
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