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Indentured servant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Indian indenture system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indian indenture system started from the end of slavery in 1834 and continued until 1920, when thousands of Indians were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for ...
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Hutchinson’s encyclopedia explains that “Indentured labour was the means by which many British people emigrated to North America during the colonial era”, and adds that “in the 19th- early 20th centuries it was used to recruit Asian workers for employment elsewhere in European colonial empires.”...
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This first period of European indentured labour had ended by the early nineteenth century, however the abolition of slavery within the next few decades by European countries created a labour shortage in most of their overseas colonies, and planters looked primarily to Asia to fill the gap.
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5.4 Resistance to Indentured Labour & Abolitio ... China, for example, initiated a more assertive foreign policy in the 1870s, which included greater regulation of emigration and the eventual abolition of indentured labour in order to restore its national honour abroad.
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A Wisdom Archive on indentured labour ... A selection of articles related to indentured labour ... indentured labour: Encyclopedia - Caste...
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For instance a great part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century witnessed a regular migration of Indian workers as indentured labour for plantations or mines in the British colonies;
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