Indentured labor ‚¬€œ A bonded laborer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, to pay off his passage to a new country or home. ?Important PointsIn the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Indian and Chinese laborers went to work on plantations, in mines, and on inroad and railway construction projects around the world. In India, indentured laborers were hired under contracts that promised return travel to India after they had worked five years on their employer‚¬„¢s plantation. The main destinations of Indian indentured migrants were the Caribbean islands (mainly Trinidad, Guyana, and Surinam), Mauritius, and Fiji. Closer home, Tamil migrants went to Ceylon and Malaya. Indentured workers were also recruited for tea plantations in Assam. ?Hence, the indentured migrant laborers were taken to Trinidad to work.