Common Contracts
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THE AGREEMENT AND THE GIRMITIYAThe Agreement • February 23rd, 2021
A century later, the trade casts a long shadow.3 Indenture was a system of contract labor under which individuals were recruited in their home countries to serve as migrant workers abroad, usually for a term of three to five years.4 Though these contracts often provided for return journeys after a decade of plantation labor, a significant proportion of those indentured never returned to their home countries.5 Between 1834, when the first thirty-nine Indians were brought to Mauritius, and 1917, when recruitment was halted, indenture resettled more than 1.3 million Indians, as well as hundreds of thousands of East Asians, Africans, and Pacific Islanders, on British colonies the world over.6 Most of these workers were bound to sugarcane plantations, where they were used at first as replacements for formerly enslaved Africans.7
