Download or read book Letters on Coolie Emigration to the West Indies written by Louis Alexander Chamerovzow and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cheap sugar or Coolie immigration to the West Indies letters written by John Fairmann and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cheap Sugar Or Coolie Immigration to the West Indies written by John Fairmann and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entry Books of Correspondence Letters to Emigration Agents Colonial Secretaries Etc India West Indies China 1865 1869 written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Letters refer specifically to 'coolie' ships and emigrants travelling from Madras to Mauritius and Natal. Surgeon appointed to work on board these ships, general treatment of indentured labourers and the inferior clothing issued to them are also remarked upon. An index is featured at the back, detailing letters sent by colony.
Download or read book Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Passage to the World written by Kevin Brown and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early nineteenth century onwards, literally millions of people left their homes to cross the seas. Some, like the convicts transported to Australia, had no choice; others like the indentured Indian and Chinese labourers had almost no alternative; but the vast majority were driven to escape war, famine or grinding poverty in Europe by seeking a new life abroad. Whatever their circumstances and wherever their destination, the one experience they all shared in common was the sea voyage. This book is centred on the rite of passage that marked the transition from one life to the other, tracing the story of the emigrant, through a fresh look at original sources and first-hand accounts, from the decision to emigrate, the journey to the port and the voyage itself, to arrival in the new world. It describes the emigrant trade, the differing conditions on board sailing ships and steamers, convict and coolie ships, and the perils of overcrowding, epidemics, fire, shipwreck and even cannibalism. It also investigates the varied receptions emigrants were likely to face not necessarily the welcome promised the homeless, tempest-tost by the Statue of Liberty. This unprecedented population shift left few European families untouched by emigration, while the present-day populations of the Americas and Australasia are dominated by the descendants of those who made the journey. This gives the emigrants story a universal interest.
Download or read book Fragments of Empire written by Madhavi Kale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.
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Download or read book Chinese Coolie Emigration to Countries Within the British Empire written by Persia Crawford Campbell and published by London : P.S. King. This book was released on 1923 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Colonial Land and Emigration Commission written by Fred H. Hitchins and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The organization and personnel of the Emigration Board in England from 1840 to 1878, the administration of the Passenger Acts, and an analysis of general emigration during the period.
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Download or read book The Letters of Indophilus to The Times written by Charles Edward Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The letters of Indophilus to The Times With additional notes With additional notes written by sir Charles Edward Trevelyan (1st bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
