Indian indenture system
SYSTEM OF INDENTURED SERVITUDE, FUNCTIONING AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SLAVE LABOUR, FOLLOWING THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN 1833 AND CONTINUED UNTIL THE 1920S
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The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than one million IndiansDocumentary heritage submitted by Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2011' were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labor, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century. The system expanded after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, in the French colonies in 1848, and in the Dutch Empire in 1863.