British West Indian society and economy after emancipation -- Push factors and migration trends in India and China -- Formal organization of the British West Indian indenture system -- Life and labor ...

However, the argument in favor of reparations for indentured peoples, specifically Asian Indians who made up the vast majority of post-slavery indentured laborers, is less straightforward than it is ...

California was a free state, at least in the context of African slavery and the issues that would ultimately be settled by the Civil War. But from 1850 to 1863, a system of slavery and an illegal ...

THERE are some compelling studies on Indian indenture, tracing its origins to the British colonial era and the exploitation of cheap labour - often described as a form of human trafficking or "a new ...

A poignant chapter of South African history will be illuminated this September as Zenaéca Singh, a visual artist graduating with her Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town (UCT), ...

Zenaéca Singh's artistic journey is set to powerfully explore the history of indentured Indians who left their homeland to work under harsh conditions on the sugar plantations in Natal. As she ...

OUR forefathers laid the foundation on which every opportunity we enjoy today stands. When the first indentured Indians arrived in 1860, they faced harsh working conditions, poverty and social ...

A group of Indian “coolies,” South Africa, 1890. (Photo by the Print Collector / Print Collector / Getty Images) When the abolition of the slave trade finally came to pass, at least in England, the ...

Indian folk singer Gopal Maurya (centre) performing in his village in eastern state of Bihar in August 2019. Picture courtsey The Bidesia Project CHENNAI, India, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

This is a bittersweet saga of how Indians, under the harsh African sun, helped shape the heartland of KwaZulu-Natal. Today, on the cusp of commemorating 165 years of Indian arrival, on Sunday, 16 ...