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