Activity: Lecture
Co-ordinator: University of Guyana, Moray House Trust
Date: 7th May 2012
This history lecture, titled, ‘Floods of Fire, Reading Theophilus Richmond’s “The First Crossing”, was timed to commemorate the 174th anniversary of the arrival of East Indians in Guyana. The talk was given by Mark Tunbridge of the University of Guyana and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. It featured a ship captain’s account of the first shipload of Indian immigrants to Guyana.