31-05-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

New exhibition looks at the UK’s role in indenture labour

A little-known period of post-slavery life in the Caribbean is being explored in a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands.
I say little known, for those involved, it’s very well known, but often the narrative in the UK about the ending of slavery in the sugar plantations seems to end at that point, and doesn’t look at the “slavery in all but name” that followed on afterwards.Following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, British planters in the Caribbean devised a
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