"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds …' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S and the Library of Congress, the study situates … fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana"-- …

Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and inadvertently a small widely dispersed …