Caribbean countries are to demand that Britain makes reparations for indentured labour in addition to slavery, it emerged on Tuesday.
Nations that have pushed for payments for slavery are now planning to seek reparative justice in connection with the 500,000 indentured workers shipped from India to work on sugar plantations.
Under the system, labourers agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for a payoff at the end, but most never returned after being duped into their bonded labour.
Exporting indentured labour to the Caribbean was pioneered by Sir John Gladstone, a 19th-century landowner in British Guiana, and father of the future prime minister William Gladstone.
Charles Gladstone, a descendant of plantation owner Sir John Gladstone, apologises on behalf of his family at the University of Guyana in 2023
UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA
Guyana, as it is now known, received the most indentured labourers of any Caribbean colony, and