During the 18th and 19th centuries there are many causes and consequences of the system of indentured servitude that developed as part of global economic changes from 19th century to the 20th century. The indentured servitude system caused harsh working conditions (Doc #5,8), and massive migrations (Doc #3,4,6,9). However, these changes were caused by the enormous need for labor in the Western Hemisphere (Doc #2,7). Indentured servitude developed because of the need for labor in the Western Hemisphere. For example in document 2, a British colonial governor states, “the quantity of labor that will be required to bring to a profitable result the large and increasing sugar cultivation now going on will be great beyond the possibility of…show more content… Principal overseas indentured migrations are shown on a map in document three. This map shows how many immigrants ranging from Asian lands, Africans , Chinese and Japanese traveled to Caribbean islands and lands in the Americas for indentured labor. Massive migrations are also given in populations statistics in document four. These statistics show mass amounts of Indians, Chinese and Japanese migrated to destinations such as British Guiana, Trinidad, Caribbean islands, and South American islands for indentured labor. Massive migration is considered a consequence because of sex imbalances and population imbalances that are shown in document 6. During the late 1800’s amount of Asian Indians outnumbered the amount of former slaves in Maurituis. By 1851 there was 26,700 former male slaves and 64,300 Asian Indian males. This shows how massive migrations for indentured labor was. However, female former slaves in 1851 were 21,700 (Close in number with former male slaves), however Asian Indian women indentured laborers was only 13,700. This was a massive unbalanced sex ratio in Mauritius which was caused by the indentured labor system and massive…show more content… In document number 1, Herman Merivale first provides the idea of harsh working conditions by stating, “Indentured laborers are not voluntary immigrants.” This shows that immigrants are not volunteering to go work and are being forced to, this does not start out as a good working place. However, he is an Undersecretary of the Colonies so he compares indentured labor to slavery which makes indentured labor not seem like such a bad idea. Although, he is a secretary which means he is trying to protect the rights of the system in order to obtain labor. Document 5 shows pictures of indentured laborers crowded waiting for their assignment and Asian Indians laboring in the sugar cane field with a European supervisor. The supervisor carries a whip in his hand, creating a harsh working place for the immigrants because this shows the workers may have been mistreated if an error was to occur in their work. With such high working forces indentured labor created harsh conditions because the need for order took with wtih high amounts of people. Document 8 is from the perspective of an indentured labour which shows how harsh the working conditions were. He states, “I am overworked and the wages paid me is not sufficient.” This showed the immigrant were trapped to work there with not recieving enough money and it was a harsh working condition because they did not get enough time to eat and were
