The great experiment – the Trinidad experiment: art, abolition and racial indenture across archipelagoes

Scholar Tao Leigh Goffe, co-editor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies , interviews mixed media visual artist Andrea Chung who is based in the United States. Connecting the histories of the Great Experiment of indenture in Mauritius and the Trinidad Experiment of Chinese indentureship in the Caribbean, the two discuss the history of labour exploitation and the abolition of racial slavery comparatively across oceans. Themes include those tackled in Chung's artwork spanning colonialism, loss, motherhood, Afro-Asian heritage, and the material culture of global indentureship.