This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark’s solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Lomarsh Roopnarine is Professor of Caribbean and Latin American History at Jackson State University, USA. He received his PhD in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University at Albany, USA and taught at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix. He has published over three dozen articles in Caribbean history, society and environmental policy. He is currently writing a manuscript on Caribbean Indian Migration and Identity.
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.Introduction.- 1. Post-Emancipation St. Croix 1849-1878.- 2. Recruitment and Distribution of Indentured Indians.- 3. Typologies of Indentured Indians and Their Plantation Experience.- 4. Re-Indenture, Remittances and Reparation.- 5. A comparative analysis of East Indian on St. Croix (1863-1868) and British Guiana (1838-1843).- 6. Views and Voices on Indian Indenture on Danish St. Croix.- Conclusion.