ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Volume 6
INDENTURED LABOUR IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 18341920
INDENTURED LABOUR IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 18341920
Edited by
KAY SAUNDERS
First published in 1984 by Croom Helm
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Indentured Labour in the British Empire 18341920
Edited by KAY SAUNDERS
1984 Croom Helm Ltd
Croom Helm Ltd, Provident House, Burrell Row,
Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AT
Croom Helm Australia, PO Box 391, Manuka,
ACT 2603, Australia
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Indentured labour in the British empire 1834-1920.
1. Indentured servantsCommonwealthHistory
I. Saunders, Kay
331.544 HD4875.C/
ISBN 0-7099-2321-X
Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Biddies Ltd, Guildford and Kings Lynn
CONTENTS
William A. Green
Alan H. Adamson
Marianne D. Ramesar
M.D. North-Coombes
Brij V. Lai
Ravindra K. Jain
Raymond Evans
Kay Saunders
Peter Richardson
Page numbers in parentheses refer to discussion in the main text.
1. Jamaica circa 1850
2. Migrants introduced into the British West Indies mainly under Indenture 1834-1918
3. Map of British Guiana
4. Woodcut of Life on Plantation
5. The British West Indies
6. The Mascarenes
7. Map of Mauritius
8. Identification photos of Indian servants, Mauritius
9. Map of two Main Islands of Fiji
10. Indians on Banana Plantation
11. Indian women in the lines
12. Indian cane farmer at work in Fiji
13. Malaya in 1906
14. Queensland, location of race conflict
15. Solomon Islanders bound for Queensland (courtesy CSR, Sydney)
16. Plantation workers. Lower Herbert District, Queensland (courtesy John Oxley Library)
17. Maoknade Mill in 1870s (courtesy John Oxley Library)
18. The Dawn Muster, Halifax, North Queensland (courtesy John Oxley Library)
19. Southern Africa in 1904
20. Main Recruiting Area for Chinese Labour on the Rand: North China, 1904-6
21. Chinese Compound Police and Compound Manager, Charles Duncan Stewart, at the Consolidated Langlaagte Mine Co Ltd c 1905
22. Arrival of the first consignment of Chinese miners at Durban, Natal June 1904
23. Chinese miners and Compound Managers staff, New Kleinfontein Gold Mine and Estate Co Ltd, 1904
24. Standard living quarters for Chinese miners living on the Rand: C Compound, Simmer and Jack Prop. Mines Ltd, c 1905
I should like to thank Paul Wilson and Lee Macgregor of the Queensland State Archives, Brisbane for their able assistance. My thanks also are extended to the staff of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland; Mitchell Library, Sydney; Rhodes House, Oxford and the Public Record Office, Kew.
I should like to acknowledge my appreciation for the diligence and expertise of Kathy Dwyer and Mary Kooyman of the History Department, University of Queensland in the preparation of the manuscript.
My thanks are extended to the other members of the Queensland Radical Historians Group, affectionately dubbed the Koala Klub - Tom Cochrane, Denis Cryle, Raymond Evans, Lyndall Ryan, Helen Taylor and Bill Thorpe for their consistent intellectual stimulation, sound criticism and comradely support.
Alan H. ADAMSON is currently professor of history at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Sugar Without Slaves. The Political Economy of British Guiana, , 1838-1904.
Raymond EVANS is a lecturer in Australian history at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is the co-author of Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination. Race Relations in Colonial Queensland; These Strangers Where are they Going? Aboriginal-European Relations in the Wide Bay and Fraser Island districts, 1770-1905 as well as numerous scholarly articles. He is a contributing editor to Hecate: A Womens Interdisciplinary Journal.
William A. GREEN is currently professor of history at the Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of the acclaimed British Slave Emancipation: the Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865. Professor Green has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as Caribbean Studies, The Economic History Review, Journal of African History and Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
Ravindra K. JAIN is professor of social anthropology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of South Indians in the Plantation Frontier in Malaya; editor of Text and Context: the Social Anthropology of Tradition.
Brij V. LAL, currently a lecturer in history and politics at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, will soon assume duties at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of Girmitiyas: the Origin of the Fiji Indians and numerous scholarly articles in Pacific Studies and the Journal of Pacific History.
Daniel NORTH-COOMBES is a lecturer in economic history at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is the co-author of Bibliography of South African Economic Development; editor of Perspective in Economic History: Journal of the Economic History of Southern Africa
