A facsimile edition of the Captain's journal of the Salsette, a ship carrying indentured Indian Labourers to the West Indies, recently discovered by the author, a historian and writer working at present in the British Museum. A detailed introductory analysis by Ramdin puts in context the significance of this document, which portrays in vivid detail this little known mass migration.
Though the slavery from Africa was by then banned the labour was much needed in the Caribbean. Written by a friend who is a descendent. Slave trade has only changes the name.