Imagine that you are an indentured Indian labourer in the Caribbean. Drawing from the details in this chapter, write a letter to your family describing your life and feelings.
1. It was a world of faster economic growth as well as greater misery higher income for some and poverty for others technological advance in some areas and new forms 0f exploitation in others. In india indentured labourers were hired under contracts which promised the return travel to india after they had worked for five years on their employer’s plantation.
2. most of the indentured workers migrated in hope for a bright future but they were exploited by the recruiting agent and by the employer. They had to pay a commission to the recruiting agent. The agents used to provides false information to the workers regarding their final destination modes of travel the nature of work and living and working conditions. Sometimes agents even forcibly abducted less willing migrants.
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