Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE in 2014 In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie"--- the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on …

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