{"id":1311,"date":"2017-05-06T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/guyana\/?page_id=1311"},"modified":"2020-05-06T03:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:44:42","slug":"indian-arrival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/guyana\/history-people-culture-and-government\/national-holidays-in-guyana\/indian-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This page has migrated to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/guyanagy.com\/people\/people\/indian-arrival-day-may-5th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian Arrival Day: May 5th<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Indian arrived in Guyana as indentured laborers after the abolishment of slavery. That was after 1838. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The were contracted by the British for a five-year period of work. Most of them chose not to return to India but to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guyanagy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guyana <\/a>their homes. Learn more by clicking the link above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page has migrated to: Indian Arrival Day: May 5th The East Indian arrived in Guyana as indentured laborers after the abolishment of slavery. That was after 1838. 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