Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Total Pages: 1044
Release: 1974-10
Genre: Subject catalogs
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Arising from Bondage

Arising from Bondage
Author: Ron Ramdin
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2000-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814775486

Arising from Bondage is an epic story of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From the 1830's through World War I hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they labored on the sugar estates. Unlike the Africans their status was ambiguous--not actually enslaved yet not entirely free--they fought mightily to achieve power in their new home. Today in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. This study, based on official documents and archives, as well as previously unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, fills a major gap in the history of the Caribbean, India, Britain and European colonialism. It also contributes powerfully to the history of diaspora and migration.