They bound themselves to work as indentured labourers for a set number of years on the plantations.

These indentured labourers were mostly made up of marginal farmers.

Instead of calling them slaves, they were called indentured labourers.

Between 1834 and 1921, around half a million indentured labourers were present on the island.

In the 1915 census they made up almost 25% of the population, which included the indentured labourers the British had brought.

They were also able to grow their own cash crops and sell to the indentured labourers.

By this time, 60, 537 indentured labourers were in Fiji.

Most were men who had come to look for work as indentured labourers, or coolies.

She was used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies.

It consisted of 300 free Indians and 800 indentured labourers.