She Wud Be 111 Now! 'Coolie Woman'

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book...93932.html

Quote: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. In Coolie Woman—shortlisted for the 2014 Orwell Prize—her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed

anybody bring this book here before?  with all due respect to them if they have

http://cooliewoman.com/the-story/

I suppose that is the Georgetown Harbour back in the day.

very pretty picture.  it grabs you but not for the right reasons.

it looks very sanitized, idyllic, out of someones abstraction of what that reality looked like..a perfect life.  I mean a slave is even relaxing pon top ah boat as if he does not have a care in the world

mapoui,

you wont believe this. thats my ajee(father's mother} mother

yuh kidding me.  small world.  so yuh have the book then.  you read it ::confused::

yes i have

great.  I will order a copy soon. went to buy 2 books.  got them but my money ran out and I did not want to use CC
books expensive these days bwoy