The use of ‘indentured labour’ in the nineteenth century involved:

people being transported to the British colonies and forced to work for one employer under poor conditions
the sale of African people through the slave trade in the ‘Atlantic triangle’
selecting the most skilled workers in factories to promote their employer’s company overseas
extracting the teeth of the laziest workers to stop them from talking
people being transported to the British colonies and forced to work for one employer under poor conditions  After the slave trade had ended in the nineteenth century, there continued to be great ethnic and racial divisions between countries. Within the capitalist world economy, 30 million ‘indentured’ workers were exported from India to British colonies, for example to work on the sugar plantations in the Caribbean. They were not slaves as they were paid a wage, but this wage was very low and they were forced to work under poor conditions. 631

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