A protester in Jamaica holds a sign during a rally to demand that the United Kingdom make reparations for slavery - GILBERT BELLAMY/Reuters Caribbean nations are set to demand that Britain make ...

A photo-essay tracing the forgotten migration of women indentured labourers from north India to Suriname through colonial contracts and family memory. Centred on Dhannu Munia, a Bhojpuri woman migrant ...

However, the argument in favor of reparations for indentured peoples, specifically Asian Indians who made up the vast majority of post-slavery indentured laborers, is less straightforward than it is ...

THERE are some compelling studies on Indian indenture, tracing its origins to the British colonial era and the exploitation of cheap labour - often described as a form of human trafficking or "a new ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

Dr Estherine Adams is Head of the Department of History and Caribbean Studies in the Faculty of Education and Humanities at the University of Guyana. Her manuscript, “The Few Among the Many: Women’s ...