Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1982

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Marina, William

Abstract

This thesis explores the origin and the far reaching influence of four hundred indentured Indian agricultural laborers who were introduced into British Guiana in 1838. John Gladstone, father of the "perennial" Prime Minister, was the originator of the enterprise. He was one of the few subjects of Her Royal Majesty with the influence, wealth, and nerve to begin a new, and questionable, labor system so soon after the emancipation of African slaves in the British Empire. The ramifications of the Gladstone coolies were historically important and world-wide in scope. Because of them the Government of the British Empire entered the coolie trade and made it one of its strong props.

Extent

161 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1982.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14130

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