When legal emancipation finally arrived in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean plantation economies, it created massive labor shortages. The volume details how empires filled this vacuum by migrating millions of indentured laborers—primarily from India and China—under highly coercive contracts that many contemporary observers likened to a new species of slavery. 4. 20th-Century State Slavery and Wartime Bondage
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