Only 181 years ago, the ancestors of present day Afro-Guyanese were liberated from the shackles of slavery. Slave revolts coupled with white fear, political pressure and the declining economic gains of slavery, were some of the main factors that resulted in the end of the barbaric commoditization of black bodies through the slave trade. Slave owners however, even after abolishment continued to profit as Britain took out a loan to compensate the slave owners for their lost labour force. Britain’s slavery debt was not repaid until 2015.
