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Was Indian indentureship a ‘new system of slavery’?
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The Modern Caribbean - CS126 Was Indian indentureship a 'new system of slavery'? After the abolition of the African Slave Trade, in 1807, Britain was faced with a 'crisis' of labour, due to the reluctance of the freed Africans to work on the sugar plantations, and by 1838, plans were underway to exploit the labour resources of India by means of indentureship. Britain imported immigrants as labourers to Trinidad and British Guiana, to work on these plantations. Here, they were employed in the least desirable jobs in society and being culturally alien, they were relegated to the bottom rung of the social ladder and had few opportunities for social mobility. Therefore, was the Indian contractual system of indentureship just a 'new system of slavery'? To assess this, one has to examine why Indian labourers were brought to the Caribbean and how their indentureship differed from that of African slavery. In 1838, with...
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