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I am a Trinidad-born American citizen settled down with my husband and two children in New Jersey. I was educated in London with a Business Administrative Degree and my occupation was that of a print and fashion model. After the abolition of slavery with the British, a vast number of Immigrants were taken from the Indian sub-continent where they became indentured laborers in the Caribbean. Disparate people were thrown together under tight conditions with rigid plantation discipline under the British Empire. This is a breathtaking, fascinating narrative autobiography of my ancestors who went to work in the cane fields under the excruciating commands of the British where after five years they were freed and became successful businessmen. This work is painstaking in documenting this true story. It is alive, definitely dramatic, clear and exceptionally moving. My research into this story has never been told before and now must be unfolded because of its powerful and unique history of past times that were unknown to people all over the globe. The story traces my family's history from the streets of Calcutta to the sugar cane plantations of Trinidad owned by the British and these East Indian indentured laborers living in slave-like conditions, then starting several successful businesses and growing from poverty. I trust that you will see this book as not just my own family's journey but in a large measure indicative of the struggles, successes, and failures of the many thousands of Indians who came to the New World as indentured laborers and worked so hard to become successful. Our story is largely unknown in America It is alive and I have tried to make the story inspirational and full of human kindness.

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Title of eBook: Uprooted
Release Date: 01-18-2010
Publisher: iUniverse.com

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Chapter One

IN THE BEGINNING

In the middle of the noise and confusion of the crowded marketplace Moktee was completely alone for the first time of his life. He came from a small town in the state of Bihar, a farmer, the son of a farmer but when the rains came and the floods came everything was washed away. He lost his mother. He lost his sister. That was two years ago. This year no rains came, the ground dried up. The winds blew the dust away and there were no crops. Everyone was hungry, his father and his brother died from diseases. Although he was only nineteen he had worked for almost ten years on the farms. He knew all about farming. He knew it was hard work. Now the farms were parched, there was no work, there was no food and he was all alone. After struggling alone with no one else for many months, maybe half a year, Moktee worked up the courage to ask an old man who lived in the village, a family friend for a small amount of money. He wanted to go, desirous to seek his fortune in the great city of Calcutta. He had heard so much about it. Surely the people in this city were not struggling like the people were in his little village. He would use his brains and his brawn to get himself a really good job in the great city and make lots of money and return a wealthy and successful man. It was not so hard really, he told himself, he was young and strong. Full of optimism about the future in spite of what had happened. So he packed up his belongings, a shirt, a prayer book, a bit of rice and headed for the market where he knew the vendors would be setting up for the following day and the bullock carts would be

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