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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.5447
- isbn: 9782367812915
- eisbn: 9782367813639
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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écotones Guyane française Guyana Suriname migration travail engagé ecotones French Guyane Guyana Suriname migration indentured labour Geography SOC015000 RGCCiter ce document
Gaiutra Bahadur, « The Rose Hall Uprising », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5447
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The following account of the 1913 uprising on Rose Hall Plantation, an uprising significant for the abolition of indenture, is an excerpt from Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Hurst & Co. and the University of Chicago Press: London and Chicago, 2013), courtesy of the publishers. The book reconstructs the journey of the author Gaiutra Bahadur’s great-grandmother Sujaria from Bihar to British Guiana in 1903. On October 17, 1906, Sujaria was transferred from a plantation near the capital,...