The Still Cry: Personal accounts of East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago during indentureship, 1845-1917

The reports of five surviving ex-indentured immigrant laborers are recorded verbatim to read like an epic poem. A woman, a Madras emigrant, a Muslim, a Brahmin and a cocoa/rubber estate worker narrate the conditions of life in village India when they left, the trauma of crossing the Kala Pani (Black Water), and the experience of adjusting to a new life among strangers under a driver and overseer on the plantation ranges of the New World.