Many were illiterate, signing their papers with their thumbprints and some, bearing their assigned numbers, tattooed on their bodies. Under British rule, they worked at the sugar cane plantations following the abolishment of slavery.
I spent hours until I called it quits, convinced that there was no way to trace my ancestry to India.īetween the years of 18, 144,000 Indian indentured laborers were brought to the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago. I researched, in a repetitive action that now occurs around every six months of my life: Indian indentured laborers in Trinidad, Indian immigration ships and Indian indenture ship recorders. I wrapped myself in three layers of blankets, eyes glued to my laptop screen. It was snowing for what felt like the millionth time of my senior year of college in upstate, New York. The heat of the once frozen pizza emanated steadily onto my lap.
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