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never been indentured, or whose indenture had expired, and thus free wage labor was the more prevalent for Europeans in the colonies. Indentured people were...

The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers from British India were transported to labour...

under indenture. By the beginning of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, only 2 to 3 percent of the colonial labor force was composed of indentured servants...

they served as labor for plantations. A majority of these plantations grew sugar. Unlike indentured laborers before 1830, most indentured laborers post-1830...

Guiana in 1853, forming an important minority of the indentured workforce. After their indenture, many who stayed on in Guyana came to be known as successful...

Irish indentured servants were Irish people who became indentured servants in territories under the control of the British Empire, such as the British...

substituted the slave labor supplies from Africa with indentured labor supplies from India. The indentured people brought from India included primarily Hindus...

common). Any indentured laborer who left before the contract ended was considered a criminal and subject to a prison term. When the indentured labor law was...

British colonies (such as Mauritius in 1834), the authorities looked for indentured labor to replace the slaves who had been emancipated. The emissaries sent...

Indentured servitude in Pennsylvania (1682-1820s): The institution of indentured servitude has a significant place in the history of labor in Pennsylvania...

demand for cheap labor for this work, in part, first drove slave trade from Africa (in particular West Africa), followed by indentured labor trade from South...

ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. They are descendants of the Jahaji indentured laborers from British India, who were brought by the British, Dutch, and...

abroad. The government of Java recruited a group of 18 Chinese for indentured labor in the Catharina Sophia plantation in Saramacca. Because of the high...

large number of indentured labourers from India to work in the sugar cane fields. Between 1834 and 1921, around half a million indentured labourers were...

wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry...

Girmitiyas, (Bhojpuri: 𑂏𑂱𑂩𑂧𑂱𑂗𑂱𑂨𑂰) also known as Jahajis, were indentured labourers from British India transported to work on plantations in Fiji...

during the British regime, starting in 1834 as part of the large-scale indentured labor force from India.: 123–124  Mauritius became independent in 1968 and...

Planters embraced the use of slaves mainly because indentured labor became expensive. Some indentured servants were also leaving to start their farms as...

colonies in the Caribbean was filled by indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent. Millions of enslaved or indentured laborers were brought to various...

are the same voices that reap the economic benefits of a system of indentured labor that enslaves thousands of foreign workers – a system described in...