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  3. Emigration from India: the Export of Coolies, and Other Labourers, to Mauritius
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    07 September 2011
    17 February 2011
    ISBN:
    9780511793462
    9781108026000
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793462
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.11kg, 80 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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    This collection of papers, reports and letters, published in 1842, documents the official investigation into the export of South Asians effectively as slave labour to Mauritius and British Guiana in 1837, four years after the abolition of slavery in all British colonies. The investigation revealed how the anti-slavery laws were evaded by the issue of nominal contracts for labourers, by which much of their wages were withheld to pay for their passage, and how enticement, trickery and sometimes kidnap were used in recruiting them. It highlights appalling conditions on overloaded ships, inadequate living conditions and a brutal working environment. Only rarely were workers released at the end of their 'contract'. The reports and correspondence show the struggle of Parliament and the Anti-Slavery Society to ascertain facts often distorted by corrupt officials, particularly on Mauritius. Readers will find chilling parallels to the human trafficking that still persists today.

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