We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture Paperback / softback
Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Tina K. Ramnarine
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Customers based in the United States and Canada, please order from here: https://bit.ly/2GAV2YRThe abolition of slavery was thecatalyst for the arrival of the first Indianindentured labourers into the sugar colonies ofMauritius (1834), Guyana (1838) and Trinidad (1845),followed some years later by theinception of the system in South Africa (1860)and Fiji (1879).
By the time indenture was abolished in the British Empire(1917-20), over one million Indians had beencontracted, theoverwhelming majority of whom never returned toIndia.
Today, an Indian indentured labour diaspora isto be found in Commonwealth countriesincluding Belize, Kenya, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles. Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into anagreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, was open to abuse fromrecruitment to plantation.
Hidden within this little-known system ofnineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration under the British Empire are hithertoneglected stories of workers who were both exploited and unfree.
These include indentured historiesfrom Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius andSouth Africa. To mark the centenary of the abolitionof the system in the British Empire (2017-20) this volume brings together, for the firsttime, new writing from across the Commonwealth.
It is a unique attempt toexplore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the twenty-first century.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:University of London
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
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- ISBN:9781912250073
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages
- Publisher:University of London
- Publication Date:30/04/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781912250073
