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Islam came to the Caribbean after the abolition of slavery by the European powers in 1834. With the freeing of the African slaves, new labor was needed to tend to the sugar plantations throughout the region. The British imported migrant workers from India (at that time including what is now Pakistan with its Muslim population) and the Dutch imported labor from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). In the British West Indies. Islam was of small importance as most of the migrant workers were Hindu.

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Adrain Weissnat

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