This book provides a collection of poems, texts and sketches of the Indian plantation experience as well as a deconstruction of the idea of the coolie.
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A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
"When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial gov…
The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laboreres to life by painstaki…
Historische studie over de werkomstandigheden van koelies op plantages op Sumatra omstreeks de eeuwwisseling