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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture

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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: "[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait." —The Independent

In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a "coolie" —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-gra...