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Nelson Island—indentureship’s gateway

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Newly-arrived indentured immigrants assemble outside the main dormitory on Nelson Island for a group photo in 1880.

Emancipation in 1834 and the understandable reluctance of former slaves to return to a new form of bondage on the sugar plantations of Trinidad, left a massive labour void which subsequent immigrat


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