Author: Thomas William Clinton Murdoch
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Book Description
Description: Copies of out-letters regarding indentured labour from India and China, addressed to R.G.W. Herbert and Frederic Rogers, some for the attention of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The correspondence covers misconduct of various officers, regulations, the conditions on board ships and in the colonies (especially in relation to mortality rates), the relative numbers of male and female migrants, liberated Africans, the supposed suitability of Chinese and Indian labourers for certain work, terms of contracts, the regulation of migration agents, financial questions, and the optimal 'season' for migration. An index is included at the end of the volume.