Peoples & MigrationThe 1870s

Peoples & Migration in the 1870s

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1870s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1873 to 1879. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
1873
Latest
1879
Oceania
1
South America
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. South America

    Suriname

    Hindustani indentured labour

    Contract labourers from British India, the Hindustanis, are recruited to the plantations; roughly thirty-four thousand arrive over the period.

    Era: Abolition and the Plural Society

    Sources: Suriname death records reveal fate of Hindustani indentured labourers after slavery · Radboud University, Suriname: People · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. Oceania

    Fiji

    Arrival of the Leonidas — first girmitiyas

    The first ship of indentured Indian labourers reaches Fiji, beginning a system that brings over 60,000 girmitiyas to the sugar plantations.

    Era: Cession, Colony & the Girmitiyas

    Sources: Fiji — History (Melanesian, Colonialism, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica, The historical significance of Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna · University of the South Pacific