Oggetti tra oppressione e resistenza: l’esperienza kouli nei Caraibi francofoni

Abstract

The abolition of slavery in the French colonies generates a new flow of migration from Asia. Several Indian migrants reach the coasts of the Antilles as contract laborers in the sugarcane fields. In the archipelago they suffer from the violence of European settlers who, through the imposition of Christian worship and the destruction of traditional elements of Indian culture, undertake a process of annihilating a centuries-old identity. However, the population manages to resist, reinventing itself, through the confluence of syncretistic elements.