Clem Seecharan

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In Our Time · Indian Indentured Labour · 21 May 2026 podcast

Avon in 1884.

And if you go into the National Archives in Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana, Neha's been there, I think.

If you go there, you will see these volumes which state the name of the ship and the year, certainly from 1865, not the early stages.

but from 1865 to 1917.

So once I had that information from the land transport documents, I was able to go straight to the ship's registers, which would state their names, the village from which they came, what district, yes, their caste, background,

Yes, they did.

They did.

And it would state where they came from.

It would state who they were accompanied by.

And then it would be penciled in.

Rose Hall, Port Morant, wherever they were sent to, that would be penciled in.

It's there.

I mean, I would never have known because this thing wasn't discussed, you see, for two reasons.

One, the idea that you were all kidnapped, in a way, handled this feeling of animosity that Africans had, that these people had come in to swamp us and to, as they used to put it, took the bread out of our mouths.

When we were about to embark on our freedom, these people came in as cab labor, and we paid because one third of the funding of it came from colonial budgets.

So they said, we paid to bring these people in to undercut us.

So if you were going there to an initial labor, you say, well, look, I didn't come to undercut you.

I was kidnapped.

I was tricked.

I was fooled.

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