Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxi Introduction, by Sidney W. Mintz xxiii 1. British West Indian Society and Economy after Emancipation 1(18) 2. Push Factors and Migration Trends in India and China 19(31) 3. The Formal Organization of the British West Indian Indenture System 50(37) 4. Life and Labor on the Plantations: The Chinese 87(20) 5. Life and Labor on the Plantations: The Indians 107(47) 6. Critics of Indenture: Alternative Voices in Creole Society 154(34) 7. Beyond Indenture: Chinese Mobility and Assimilation Patterns 188(29) 8. Sojourners to Settlers: West Indian East Indians, and East Indian West Indians 217(48) 9. Conclusion: Asian Indenture in Comparative Perspective 265(6) Appendix 1. Tables of Statistics 271(32) Appendix 2. Evolution of Laws on Immigration in Trinidad, British Guiana, and Jamaica 303(11) Appendix 3. Samples of Contracts of Indenture 314(5) Notes 319(32) Bibliography 351(14) Index 365