"The study is based on a thorough use of the principal primary sources: the relevant Colonial Office documents, a number of official reports, newspapers and a range of secondary sources. The author is able to recover from the official documents the voice of the 'subaltern'; she also situates her work in the context of the discourse on the place of women in Caribbean historiography. The documentary material reproduced supplements the text admirably." - Clem Seecharan
Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labor with indentured Indian labor, and this book recounts the story of one woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of the West Indies Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9789766401214
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
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"The study is based on a thorough use of the principal primary sources: the relevant Colonial Office documents, a number of official reports, newspapers and a range of secondary sources. The author is able to recover from the official documents the voice of the 'subaltern'; she also situates her work in the context of the discourse on the place of women in Caribbean historiography. The documentary material reproduced supplements the text admirably." - Clem Seecharan