Reading indigeneity in nineteenth-century British Guiana

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses some correspondence between Robert Schomburgk (1804–1865) and Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876). Four letters survive, containing information about the history of Schomburgk's collection of fishes and plants from British Guiana, and his herbarium specimens from Dominican Republic and southeast Asia. A study of these letters has enabled us to confirm that Schomburgk supplied the collection of fishes from Guiana now in the Laboratoire d'Ichtyologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The letters of the German naturalist are an interesting source of information concerning the practice of sale and exchange of natural history collections in the nineteenth century in return for honours.

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"It Is Impossible to Make a Step without the Indians": Nineteenth-Century Geographical Exploration and the Amerindians of British Guiana

Ethnohistory ◽

10.1215/00141801-49-1-3 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 3-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

D. G. Burnett

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

British Guiana

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Stifled at birth: Private emigration from Bombay to British Guiana in the mid‐nineteenth century

Immigrants & Minorities ◽

10.1080/02619288.1987.9974657 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 190-199

Author(s):

Basdeo Mangru

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

British Guiana

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The Making of a Crown Colony: British Guiana, 1803–33

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society ◽

10.2307/3678396 ◽

1926 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 107-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. M. Penson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

South America ◽

River Basins ◽

British Guiana ◽

Mountain Ranges ◽

History Of

In the history of South America as a whole, the first thirty years of the nineteenth century were marked by wars of independence and the diplomatic search for political recognition. Among these struggling republics and revolted Empires, a little enclave remained under European rule. Facing the Atlantic, between the Orinoco and the Amazon, guarded by mountain ranges, lay the coastlands of Guiana, a series of river basins occupied by a medley of European peoples.

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The Retention of Caste Notions Among the Indian Immigrants in British Guiana During the Nineteenth Century

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417500008513 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 96-107 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Brian L. Moore

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

West Indies ◽

West Indian ◽

Social Effects ◽

The West ◽

British Guiana ◽

Indian Immigrants ◽

The World ◽

Indian Immigration

Indian immigration into the West Indies generally during the nineteenthcentury, and in particular to British Guiana, forms a small portion of migrationmovements from one area to another in the world during thatperiod. But in terms of West Indian societies, this immigration representeda major influx and so had significant social effects, especially inBritish Guiana and in Trinidad. By 1917 when the system was terminated some 429,286 Indians had been introduced into the West Indies since 1838, of which 238,909 went to British Guiana, and 143,939 to Trinidad.

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A Voice for Slaves

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.30 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 30-53 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Trevor Burnard

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Working Class ◽

British Empire ◽

Moral Economy ◽

Slave System ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

British Guiana ◽

Class Culture ◽

Enslaved Women ◽

Peculiar Nature

This article examines the office of the Fiscal in Berbice (later British Guiana) between 1819 and 1834—a period encompassing amelioration and emancipation. It looks in particular at the lives and concerns of enslaved women as revealed in an extraordinary set of slave testimonies collected as part of the Fiscal’s duties. It outlines the peculiar nature of the Office of the Fiscal and how it allowed enslaved women a voice to complain about aspects of their treatment under slavery in a particularly harsh slave regime. It connects this office also to a developing ideology of “protection” to be extended to non-whites in the British Empire in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. Using the concept of “moral economy” as developed many years ago by E.P. Thompson to analyse early nineteenth-century British working class culture and as extended by Emilia Viotta Da Costa to Demerara and Berbice, it suggests that enslaved women had clear expectations of what could be rightfully expected of them and what were unjust demands within a slave system designed to keep enslaved women in their place.

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