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Sugar plantations and indentured labor: Migrations from China and India to the British West Indies, 1838-1918.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sugar plantations and indentured labor: Migrations from China and India to the British West Indies, 1838-1918./
Author:	Look Lai, Walton.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1991,
Description:	631 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 1048.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International52-03A.
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9124740

Sugar plantations and indentured labor: Migrations from China and India to the British West Indies, 1838-1918.
Look Lai, Walton.

Sugar plantations and indentured labor: Migrations from China and India to the British West Indies, 1838-1918. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1991 - 631 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 1048.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1991.

The transition from slavery to free labor in the Americas was a general phenomenon of the nineteenth century. However, the phenomenon of labor coercion, far from dying out, assumed new and diverse forms. One particular expression of this continuation of the forced labor tradition was the revival of the indenture system i.e. contract labor with penal sanctions attached. Contract or indentured labor was not new to the Americas: indeed it had preceded the introduction of slavery. What was new about its revival in the nineteenth century was the source of the contract labor (overwhelmingly Asian i.e. Chinese and Indian), and the more elaborate mechanisms surrounding its operation in the post-Emancipation period.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122902
Latin American history.

Sugar plantations and indentured labor: Migrations from China and India to the British West Indies, 1838-1918.
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520 $a The transition from slavery to free labor in the Americas was a general phenomenon of the nineteenth century. However, the phenomenon of labor coercion, far from dying out, assumed new and diverse forms. One particular expression of this continuation of the forced labor tradition was the revival of the indenture system i.e. contract labor with penal sanctions attached. Contract or indentured labor was not new to the Americas: indeed it had preceded the introduction of slavery. What was new about its revival in the nineteenth century was the source of the contract labor (overwhelmingly Asian i.e. Chinese and Indian), and the more elaborate mechanisms surrounding its operation in the post-Emancipation period.
520 $a In the British West Indies, where the battle to end the system of slavery had been particularly acute, the replacement of one system of labor coercion by another was attended by unique concerns and special arrangements. The indenture system which evolved in Trinidad, British Guiana, and Jamaica in particular was markedly different in its organisation and operation from its counterparts in Latin America (especially Cuba and Peru).
520 $a However, the relationship between the formal laws regulating the indenture system, and the application of those laws in day-to-day plantation life, often showed up severe discordances. The lived experiences of the laborers often revealed the character of the indenture experiment more accurately than the Immigration Ordinances.
520 $a This study examines the regional laws, the relationship between the laws and plantation life in the three major territories, and the responses of the new immigrants from Asia to the indenture system. It examines also the extent to which they remained "sojourners" or "settlers" in their new societies, the options open to them after indenture, and the various ways in which ex-indentured Chinese and Indians in Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica concretely exercised these options, revealing one facet of the Asian-American diasporal experience in a plantation environment whose expansion was severely constricted by the priorities of Empire in the new Industrial Age.
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