Publisher's Synopsis
What is different about After Slavery: Indian Indentured Labourers is its in-depth exposition of the events and issues - based largely on original and unpublished sources - that informed and shaped the history of indentured immigration to British Guiana. These issues ranged from the state of the economy after the abolition of slavery; the forces that drove many Indians to emigrate; the conditions under which they lived and worked, and their survival against the tyranny of the planters.
