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Thread #122094   Message #2672915
Posted By: Rasener
06-Jul-09 - 11:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seeking Information About Black Britons
Subject: RE: BS: Seeking Information About Black Britons
I remember the people from the Indian Continent hitting the Hansdworth Wood area of Birmingham. From my memory, many were exploited.
Handsworth Wood was a very wealthy area with large houses owned by white british. The people who did the exploiting, bought these houses and then rented the rooms to them. I think they just packed them in, and it was even on a shift basis. One group went to work in the morning, and the people who worked at night, took their beds, and so on. I am not sure what it is like now, but Handsworth Wood was involved in the race riots that went on in England some time ago.