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The Abolition Of Indentured Labor
An indentured laborer is someone who leaves a country and agrees to work a certain number of years in exchange for his or her passage. There was a sharp increase in the number of indentured laborers as the abolition of slave trade came into affect. Many Indians went to be indentured laborers in the British colonies. The Indians also sent over 140,000 to Trinidad and smaller numbers to many other places across the world. Once they had completed the five years of work many of them bought land or small businesses and up to a third of all Indians returned to their homeland. Many of the Chinese went to Cuba to work for the Spanish.
Very few of the Indentured laborers were female so there was no reproduction. This caused the communities founded

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