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British imperial indenture system a ‘sanitised’ form of slavery

British imperial indenture system a ‘sanitised’ form of slavery

by Talking Humanities | Jun 12, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications

The abolition of slavery was the catalyst for the system of indenture, under which the British brought Chinese and East Indians to the Caribbean to labour on the region’s sugar plantations. The first wave arrived in Mauritius in 1834, followed by Guyana (1838) and...

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