Photographs
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| Indians disembarking |
The arrival and settlement of Indentured Indians in Natal inevitably paved way for 'free' ... When he attempted to disembark at the Point, together ... |
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| Indian Immigrants at the Bluff, Durban |
rrival of the first indentured Indians, an event that was to have far-reaching results for the ... labour and would thus be a useful immigrant in the colony where ... brought ashore in small boats and then transferred to the Depot on the. Bluff. |
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| Immigrants arriving at Port Natal in 1900 |
The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British ... The next step was taken by the settlers at the port, |
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| Arrival of Indians in Boats |
THE INDENTURED IMMIGRANTS WHO SPOKE TAMIL AND TELUGU ... THIS 2 X 2 METRE MURAL FORMS A SPECIAL TRIBUTE ... |
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| 7th Alan Paton Lecture 2000 given by Donald Woods: David Maughan Brown (left), Donald Woods and Mike Cowling (right) |
Colour print 9 x 15cm |
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| 7th Alan Paton Lecture 2000 given by Donald Woods |
Colour print 9 x 15cm |
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| 7th Alan Paton Lecture 2000 given by Donald Woods: Deborah Matthews (left) and Donald Woods |
Colour print 9 x 15cm |
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| 7th Alan Paton Lecture 2000 given by Donald Woods: David Maughan-Brown (left), Donald Woods and Mike Cowling (right) |
Digital image |
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| Indenture labourers arrive in boats in Port Natal |
Approximately 152,184 indentured Indians arrived under the scheme of indenture ... The ports of Madras and Calcutta served as the points of embarkation. ... |
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| Places Indians came from |
Between 1842 and 1870 a total of 525,482 Indians emigrated to the British and French Colonies. |
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| Areas Indenture Indians emigrated |
Between 1842 and 1870 a total of 525,482 Indians emigrated to the British and French Colonies. |
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| Sugar cane crusher |
Farmer over looks the Sugarcane crusher in the early 1900s |
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| Indentured Indians in the Sugar Field |
The Indians were sent to work on the sugar cane fields, railways or to work as special servants, ayahs (Nannies) for the White children, waiters or cooks. The Indians lived in atrocious conditions , their wages were low and sometimes they were not paid. |
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| The arrival of Indians in Natal by Boats. |
arrival of the first indentured Indians, an event that was to have far-reaching results for the Colony of Natal. The first ships arrived in November 1860 having left ... |
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| Women working on the Cane fields |
Cutting cane in 40 cm sets. Less privileged women who had to work in the fields or move about as ... In the case of one woman who set fire to cane-fields on the Natal ... |
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| Old Train Illovo Sugar c. 1905 |
In the early 1900s, 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway lines started playing a significant role in ... Many defunct locomotives are plinthed at various former railway station sites or work ... |
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| Workers spraying the Cane field |
Sugar cane industry in Natal |
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| Sugar Plantation |
The sugar estates, and elsewhere, thus reflected and underpinned the ... majority of whom, particularly in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, worked on the sugar. |
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| Sugar Cane Cutters - 1870 |
The demand for labor for Natal's sugarcane fields' had dramatically increased ... 350,000 between 1842 and 1870 and a further 80,000 onwards and to Natal ... Indentured labour was not free labour; and the workers who, either voluntarily or ... |
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| Old train in Sugar Fields |
Trains were used to transport sugar cane |