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- Title: Chinese Emigrants, Indentured Workers, And Christianity in the West Indies, British Guiana and Hawaii
- Author : Caribbean Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 115 KB
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Upon the abolition of the slave trade, sugar planters in the West Indies sought other means to fill their need for cheap labor. Indentured labor filled the gap during a few decades in the mid-nineteenth century as tens of thousands of Indian and Chinese workers migrated to the West Indies. Conditions on the voyage to the West Indies and on the sugar plantations were harsh so that the death rate was high. A few Christian missionaries in China helped recruit laborers for the British colonies, perhaps in hopes of mitigating the cruelty of the trade. In general, they favored Christian converts. Although most of the Indian laborers returned home upon completion of their period of indenture, many Chinese settled in the West Indies and Guyana (British Guiana). Christianity provided them with a sense of community and a degree of stability. Thus, the indentured labor system contributed to the spread of Christianity to the West Indies. Keywords: emigration, sugar plantations, indentured labor, Christianity, Chinese, West Indies