https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w en-us 2017-03-17 10:43:15 UTC 2025-11-15 00:48:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png jmwape https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162251409 Indentured Indians came to SA as indentured labourers to work on the sugar plantations of the Natal colony.]]> 2017-03-23 19:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162251409 jmwape https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162278351 Indentured means that you are in a contract in means of apprenticeship but being a slave means that you are owned by an individual, so the IILs were given monthly wages and slaves weren't paid in money but in food and shelter. The IILs were given provisions and healthcare meanwhile slaves had to take care of themselves. At the end of the initial three-year contract the IILs were given free passage back to India but the slaves had to keep working until their owners decided otherwise.]]> 2017-03-23 21:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162278351 jmwape https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162329640 The Indentured labourers erected the own shacks and were able to cultivate small patches of the surrounding land for their own use. If they were not exhausted they had to build shelters and they found themselves in very cramped spaces because there were a lot of indentured Indians. Although families were not supposed to be split up a lot of them were. ]]> 2017-03-24 07:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162329640 jmwape https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162350480 The main difference between the passenger Indians and the indentured ones is that the passenger Indians payed for their own journey to Natal and were not bound by any contract.]]> 2017-03-24 09:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/oabousheer/dwakevtafx3w/wish/162350480