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" ... Aapravasi Ghat in Mauritius is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and where nearly half a million ... [+] indentured laborers arrived from India between 1834 and 1924 to work on sugar plantations in Mauritius and other destinations they could be sent to. ... "
" ... People often joke that Durban’s the largest Indian city outside of India. The destination has a large population of descendants from indentured laborers the British brought from India to work Durban's sugar cane fields in the 19th century. Nowadays, their traditions have become a quintessential part of Durban’s cultural melting pot. ... "
" ... The downside is why critics call internships, at their worst, indentured servitude and another distinction between the job-seeking haves and have-nots. The haves can take these poorly paid or unpaid apprenticeships and still rely on parents’ support to sustain or supplement them; the have-nots, without that crucial parental financial backing, are forced to take starter jobs that pay, but not very well, and may not lead into a field of real, sustaining potential. ... "
" ... Unfortunately, in the world of forced labor, the federal government also speaks with somewhat of a forked tongue. It may be hard to imagine, but they actually promote a double standard with regard to this important issue. On one hand, federal law says that it is illegal to import items into the United States if the goods are produced or manufactured, even in part, in any foreign country by convict, forced, or indentured labor (Title 19, Section 1307). On the other hand, our same federal government uses a separate (but wholly owned) corporate entity called UNICOR, to promote the use of USA prison labor as a means to assemble garments. UNICOR (also called FPI – Federal Prison Industries) is a wholly owned Government Corporation that is a division of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) which is part of the Department of Justice (DOJ). By virtue of the 13th amendment, US prisoners are not considered as forced labor. ... "
" ... With the rise of tobacco as a cash crop in the Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic regions of North America in the 17th century, the need for a large labor force resulted in an influx of indentured servants from Europe and then race-based slavery in the American colonies. Everyone at Avery’s Rest was engaged in physically demanding activities, but the differences between the African and European descended people are materially important, Fleskes tells me by email. “Although the close burial patterning and the shared markers of osteological stress are different than what is observed in later 18th and 19th century plantation sites,” she says, “relationships were still structured under the auspices of enslavement at Avery’s Rest.” ... "