🏛️ History & Culture
Scenes from the History of the Portuguese in Guyana
An illustrated history of the Madeiran Portuguese in British Guiana, who began arriving in 1835 to work on sugar plantations and later became a prominent merchant community.
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2 books about Madeira tagged “Portuguese diaspora”.
An illustrated history of the Madeiran Portuguese in British Guiana, who began arriving in 1835 to work on sugar plantations and later became a prominent merchant community.
A scholarly study of the Madeiran-descended Portuguese community in Guyana — their culture and the tensions of colonial society — and the fuller successor to Menezes’s earlier “Scenes from the History of the Portuguese in Guyana”.