It’s the early to mid-1900s. The slaves had left the plantations. The Indentured were making post-bound-yard choices. For themselves and all their off-spring.
The African descendants were sabotaged with their post-plantation agricultural survival enterprises. They gladly opted for “education” then the civil service and all the “services” where they could don an authoritative colonial uniform – police, fire, army, prison-service.
Once “bound” no more by the estate–yard, the “Indians” stuck with agriculture. But they ventured into commerce too whilst eyeing the professions and trades the afros adapted to. Apparently the professions of engineering, aviation, telecommunication, the arts, did not have the high-end prestigious pull as medicine and law did. Both groups wanted
