Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa
by
Paul Younger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
When the colonial slave trade, and then slavery itself, were abolished early in the 19th century, the British empire brazenly set up a new system of trade using Indian rather than African laborers. The new system of "indentured" labor was supposed to be different from slavery because the indenture,...