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‘A few Tarzans and men Fridays … of obscure origin’ — Britain’s shameful history of indenture

‘A few Tarzans and men Fridays … of obscure origin’ — Britain’s shameful history of indenture

by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2018 | History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Research & Resources

Image: © Commonwealth Foundation Priya N Hein talks about her fictionalised account of Britain’s shameful treatment of the Chagos islanders in the second of our series of interviews with the contributors to ‘We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of...
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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