South America - a continent which was first mentioned in 1498. It was then that Christopher Columbus made historically proven sailing along its coast and discovered the island of Trinidad.
When in the sixteenth century, Columbus reached the coast of South America, in what is now Guyana's population of two Native American groups.
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In 1934, slaves brought from Africa to the colonies of Great Britain in South America, were released. In British Guiana a significant part of freedmen decided to live off the fertile land and look for irregular work.
Despite the fact that the continued recruitment of workers in the West Indies, Africa, Europe, it did not help ease the labor shortage in Guyana.
Since the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, and, especially, during the campaign to eradicate slavery, the planters of South America and the Caribbean and in Guyana, including felt an urgent need to find replacement workers.
Indians of South America - 
remains quite advanced civilizations and cultural identities.
August 28, 1833
Plantation slavery grew with the expansion of plantations.
