This book is the story of the indentured workers, mainly from India, who came to the British colony of Guiana to work plantations there in the nineteenth century. It is also the story of the two main shipping enterprises that came to dominate this trade, Sandbach Tinne & Co. of Liverpool, and the transglobal emigrant fleet established by Capt. James Nourse of London. The book also outlines the history of the Booker Brothers. Illustrated.
- ISBN10 0838638198
- ISBN13 9780838638194
- Publish Date 23 August 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 328
- Language English