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Sugar was still a major colonial force up until at least 1916, at least in Fiji; the British imported over 60,000 Indian indentured laborers and continued to da
by titzer 4y ago
Sugar was still a major colonial force up until at least 1916, at least in Fiji; the British imported over 60,000 Indian indentured laborers and continued to dabble in the local slave trade to work on the sugar plantations in Fiji. Among a long string of global trade developments to majorly impact those islands, sugar was still a massive disruption not that long ago--with many people alive there yet whose parents and grandparents were involved.