EPS 3 - Life In The Fields

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Indentured Labourers arrived from India with high expectations. Agreements made in India entitled workers to 10 shillings a month for male workers. This would have been a veritable fortune relative to the little they were leaving behind, and after the initial five-year contract expired there were incentives for a second contract with the option to return to India and be granted some land. Sadly, the conditions of these agreements were never met and the consequences were heartbreaking. The cane fields of Natal became places where both the dreams of a better life and the spirits of many indentured labourers were cruelly crushed.

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