indentured labor: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	indentured servitude

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A group of men and women from the Indian community stand on Durban's South Beach, South Africa, performing a Hindu prayer ceremony with offerings arranged on the sand.

Three Chinese-American railroad laborers stand on a handcar on train tracks, with a man in a suit and hat standing beside them in a rural landscape, circa 1890.

sharecroppers in the South

indentured laborers in Jamaica during the 1890s

Stone building with arched doorways and wooden shutters at Aapravasi Ghat, Port Louis, Mauritius, viewed through a stone archway with a tree and landscaped path beside it.

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