Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur

Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

Gaiutra Bahadur

312 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 c...

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