Sentence examples for indentured laborers from inspiring English sources

There is a racial dimension to Naipaul's reception in Trinidad, where 40percentt of the population is Afro-Caribbean and nearly 40percentt is East Indian, the East Indians descended from indentured laborers brought from India to fill a labor shortage after the abolition of slavery across the British Empire in 1834.

His grandparents had arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured laborers.

And they were part of a household staff that may have numbered two dozen, including white indentured laborers and servants.

Men and women whose parents once worked as indentured laborers for Sathy's family have educated themselves, started businesses, grown wealthy.

Havana's Chinatown had the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Caribbean, he said, and many came to the United States as indentured laborers to work on plantations.

It's an Ellis Island of sorts, embarkation point for indentured laborers from India and China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

A ruthlessly exploited indentured laborer with no control over her own destiny, she is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, the fishing port in the south of Venice's lagoon, to work in a bar.

Rounding out the shortlist are James Fergusson's look at Somalia, "The World's Most Dangerous Place"; "Coolie Woman," Gaiutra Bahadur's account of her great-grandmother, a pregnant woman who sailed from India to Guyana as an indentured laborer, or "coolie," in 1903; and Frank Dikötter's "The Tragedy of Liberation," a history of the Chinese revolution.

At the Guggenheim Museum, demonstrators have staged vibrant protests, including dropping fake money from the building's Frank Lloyd Wright spiral, to highlight working conditions at the museum's outpost in Abu Dhabi – where debt-indentured laborers endure broiling heat, squalid housing, and the confiscation of their passports.

Even espionage loses its glamour when it becomes indentured labor.

Under the terms of the Convention of Peking, in 1860, China agreed to open up more of its ports to foreign exporters, to pay more in reparations, to allow British ships to transport indentured Chinese laborers ("coolies") to the United States, and to legalize the opium trade.