First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.

The indentured labour trade was begun to replace freed slaves on sugar plantations in British colonies in the 1830s, but expanded to many other locations around

A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.