Tags: Ethnic Group.
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.
