Sentences with phrase «chinese labourers»

The role of Chinese labourers in the construction of the railroad is a key part of that story, and is now generally well known.

The casualties include 53 Chinese labourers, whose names were not recorded by the company.

Exports to the U.S. and the rest of the world plunged, and more than 100,000 factories shut their doors, throwing millions of Chinese labourers out of work.

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Ghosh gives the reader a veritable feast of characters: Deeti, the strong - willed wife of Ghazipur opium addict, Hukam Singh; Hukam's uncle ruthless Bhyro, a recruiter of migrant labourers; carpenter Zachary Reid, the son of a Baltimore Negro freedwoman and her white master; Burnham, merchant and closet masochist; Jodu, a boatman; Raja Neel Rattan Halder, a debt - ridden zemindar; Serang Ali, leader of the lascar seamen; James Doughty, a pilot for ships entering Culcutta; Kalua, a low - caste ox - cart driver; Paulette Lambert, the feisty orphaned daughter of a French botanist; Baboo Nob Kissin Pander, Burnham's accountant who is a virgin celibate with strong religious beliefs; Captain Chillingworth, engaged for his last sea - voyage; first - mate Jack Crowle, a man with an inferiority complex and a sizeable cruel streak; and Chinese - Indian opium addict, Ah Fatt.

It has a host of excellent museums, including the famous Blue Penny Museum, plus the moving Aapravasi Ghat, which is where indentured labourers (mainly Chinese) were brought after the abolition of slavery.