The Indian Communities of Martinique Celebrate the 170th Anniversary of Their Arrival
MARTINIQUE, February 2, 2023 (Le Parisien, Google translated from French): Initially, there were only three hundred–313 Indians to be exact–who landed on May 6, 1853, in Saint-Pierre, Martinique, after a painful, even fatal, journey of 90 days from Pondicherry. They came to replace the workforce on the farms deserted by the former black slaves. They will be followed by 25,000…