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Indentured labour was treated fairly in the plantations.

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The given statement is false.
Indentured labour is bonded labour under contract to work for an employer for a specific time. It was also called the “new slavery system”. Many people fell into the web of lies set up by agents. These people who wanted to escape poverty and poor living environment agreed to be plantation workers in Caribbean islands (mainly Trinidad, Guyana, and Surinam), Mauritius, and Fiji. But when they arrived there, they discovered the truth regarding their jobs far from what they imagined. Their living and working conditions were harsh, and they only had a few civil rights. When they tried to run away, they were caught and brutally punished.

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