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Coolie woman : the odyssey of indenture / Gaiutra Bahadur.

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"In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a 'coolie'--the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. No...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Bahadur, Gaiutra, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Indentured servants > Guyana > History > 20th century.
Enslaved women > Guyana > History > 20th century.
Women, East Indian > Guyana > Social conditions > 20th century.
East Indian American women > Social conditions.
Indentured servants.
Enslaved women.
Guyana.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The magician's box
  • Ancestral memory
  • The women's quarters
  • Into dark waters
  • Her middle passage
  • A new world
  • Beautiful woman without a nose
  • Gone but not forgotten
  • The dream of return
  • Every ancestor
  • Surviving history.

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