Coolie Woman

In Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, author Gaiutra Bahadur traces the journey of her great-grandmother from India to the West Indies as an indentured sugar plantation laborer, whose kind were called "coolies" by their colonial masters. After the abolition of slavery, the British transported more than a million indentured Indians to a more than a dozen colonies from 1838 to 1917, a traffic that was a third the size of the British slave trade. Among the workers rounded up and shipped across the globe, in cargo holds known as 'tween decks where they were subject to sexual exploitation, were a quarter million women. Coolie Woman tells the story of their transfiguring voyages, in traumatic "middle passages" from Calcutta to the Caribbean.

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Wow ....we have come a far way !

Just posted my 6 week old in France 

the writer is a cousin of mine. i will go get it to read.

This looks like an interesting read! Will try to see if I can find it.

I would like to read it too.

in bookstores and/or libraries?
or ebook from amazon?

you have your own story just like that

an interesting point i heard is that she dedicated the book to my mom.

I just dont like the reference to the Middle Passage

That was the vilest and most accursed trip with Africa slaves... >

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I just dont like the reference to the Middle Passage

That was the vilest and most accursed trip with Africa slaves... >
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thats your interpretation