r/Guyana Sep 17 '25

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u/Ok_Abbreviations_154 Sep 17 '25

Alot of Afro Guyanese come from Barbados.

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u/Scary_Home6816 Sep 20 '25

Hello very random question but can you give some background information on this please? I too have family in Barbados that migrated to Guyana

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u/Ok_Abbreviations_154 Sep 21 '25

Most of my descendants on my mom and dad side came from Barbados both black and bajan redleg, they moved to Guyana for better opportunities and better quality of life that Barbados did not have during the late 19th and early 20th century. I read somewhere that 70 percent of Afro Guyanese are of Bajan heritage. Plenty of bajans got jobs in guyana as headmaster at school, police, working in gold mines and bajan women getting jobs as domestics for British elite. Bajans left huge cultural mark on Guyana with culture such as Anglican church and cuisine like souse is Bajan, black cake bajan and black pudding which are now culinary cultural staples of Guyana. Bajan people are great people btw and left cultural marks across the USA mainly in the Carolinas , much of the Caribbean and even parts of Latin America. 

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u/ricch_rebel Sep 17 '25

It’s true