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studies indentureship and its legacies.
Pillai shares this frustration. So much is tied with indenture but it s largely invisible which is so aggravating, she said in a phone interview.
It s been a century since indenture contracts were abolished in the Caribbean, yet the experiences of the women and men who were exploited through the practice are still seldom told. Credit: University of Pennsylvania
As Indians faced tumultuous political upheaval and famines in the 19th century, the country was ripe for Britain to exploit, according to Pillai. Indentureship was falsely advertised as a way for Indians to see a better life. Contracts were written in English, yet the people signing them had high levels of illiteracy. Women who had been disowned by their families and widows were particularly vulnerable. If your husband had died your life was basically over, even if you were young, said Pillai.
As the global pandemic continues more acute, and more egregiously mishandled, in some locations than others I can only say that I am experiencing a profound exhaustion, and I imagine many of
sx salon’s readers are as well. It is beyond me to behave in a business-as-usual manner even for the duration of this introduction, and I am not going to try. Instead I will invite you, our readers, to consider whether all the forces political cynicism, a profit-over-people orientation, scientific illiteracy and denialism, individualism run amok, and white supremacy that underpin catastrophically failed pandemic responses in some places are also responsible for creating the climate crisis to which the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable; the record-breaking 2020 hurricane season is yet another data point indicating the acceleration of that crisis. If COVID-19 is a harbinger of our climate resilience or lack thereof, the challenges that lie before us are daunting, to say the very least.