Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

Gaiutra Bahadur

508 pages digital 2013

7 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant an...

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