A protester in Jamaica holds a sign during a rally to demand that the United Kingdom make reparations for slavery - GILBERT BELLAMY/Reuters Caribbean nations are set to demand that Britain make ...

However, the argument in favor of reparations for indentured peoples, specifically Asian Indians who made up the vast majority of post-slavery indentured laborers, is less straightforward than it is ...

Mukunda Ramarao faced this question whenever he tried, late in life, to ask about his family’s past. At 82, the Hyderabad-based academic and technologist has finally answered that question for himself ...

South Africa's High Commissioner to India, Professor Anil Sooklal, has revealed the possibility for dual memorials to commemorate the indentured Indian labourers who arrived in South Africa more than ...

THE indentured labour system became part of the new imperial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries, transporting indentured workers from India and China to the Mascarene Islands, the Caribbean, the ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

At age of nine, Urmila Chaudhari was brought from her home in Dang to be an indentured servant in the household of a landlord in Kathmandu. At age 21, she was still washing dishes and doing household ...