Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918

by Walton Look Lai

Book Overview

In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies--with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a dialectical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801877466
• ISBN13: 9780801877469
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"