Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean

by Madhavi Kale

Book Overview

When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India.

Madhavi Kale draws extensively on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812234677
• ISBN13: 9780812234671
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"