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Re: The Guianas: Slaves slaves and indentured servitude

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUlNxiALuI
17 year old video of Georgetown to Lethem (Guyana north coast to Brazilian border) road - it's been there a lot longer than  that too I believe! Dirt roads like this are common in Brazil too. One reason is that tarmac breaks up quickly in the heat.

Re: The Guianas: Slaves slaves and indentured servitude

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looks like a one way road.  what happens someone comes the other way?  That wooden bridge looks like it's seen better days too.  People live on the edge driving there it looks like.  You lived there or lived there?  How do you feel about the video of the hx of the place since europeans showed up?
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Re: The Guianas: Slaves slaves and indentured servitude

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Quote from: cat herders of linux – on
looks like a one way road.  what happens someone comes the other way?
That made me chuckle.


Common roads in the countryside near me. Though this one is particularly bad. It's two way. It's like this for about half a mile with zero passing places. If you meet someone coming the other way one of you reverses to the last passing place after a variable length stand-off. Real fun in the dark and rain !
The road in the video looks like it has decent wide verges to enable passing.
 

Re: The Guianas: Slaves slaves and indentured servitude

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No, I haven't lived there but have read a bit about it and watched some videos, but I'm not making documentaries about Guyana and even I knew there was a road to Brazil, and the original video says there wasn't until 10 years ago which is pretty funny. Australia has dirt roads too. This was a good video about Guyana I especially liked made by a Guyanan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuGUF_qVhf0
If you search around you can often find videos made by regular people, just having fun making videos and showing things as they really are, I think you can learn a lot about places like that, even though they may not be so slickly produced and promoted, and gain few viewers.
So far as Guyana goes, from what I've read the African population was freed so long ago it isn't so relevant to them, the white aristocrats back in Europe were employing black overseers abroad, using African Curraban people to track down runaways, and equally oppressing white workers in Europe. The Indian (from India) community is less forgiving as they were still being exploited in the first half of the last century, within or not far from living memory in peoples families. But the European ruling class left Guyana when it gained independence and the few that are there now presumably embrace the culture. The main issue is rivalry between the African and Indian (from India) groups.