Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)

This is an in-depth study with great statistics. I bought a brand new copy of the book,but it showed up with a good number of loose pages. They just fall out.

Great details about which parts of India these migrants cam from & their behavior in the West Indies. Also, even then the British were decent people following the law.

This is not your Alex Haley "Roots" type book. It is closer to a reference manual. This book provides a wealth of information on the Chinese and Indian migrants to the West Indies. There is extensive research on the routes, places of origins, and multiple census type information that does not seem to be taught these days. Highly recommended!

For those wanting to explore an indepth account of indenture this is a reliable and enlightning source. If you have a passion for Caribbean literature, having read this book will make the Caribbean novels you read come alive, because it gives the historical account of how the Chinese and Indian migrants arrived in the West Indies and of all the vicissitudes they endured. For many years the focus of intelectuals had centered on the arrival of the African slaves and their work in the sugar cane plantations of the West Indies. Now, Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar allows us to have a full picture of the migrants that constitute the greater part of the population of former colonies like Trinidad and British Guiana, among others, and establishes a basis for comparison between the two waves of migrations: the imposed African migration and the latter "voluntary" one described in this book.

This book is exceptionally well written and detailed, I have found it an invaluable tool for writing a Chinese Jamaican play.

Excellent purchase, brand new condition and arrived very quickly. The book is very comprehensive and contains many interesting facts. I am very please with it.