Chinese Contract Labor in the Wake of the Abolition of Slavery in the Americas: A New Form of Slavery or Transition to Free Labor in the Case of Cuba?
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DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2019.1623628
Abstract: ABSTRACT Using Cuban archival material (including many documents acquired by private U.S. collectors), this article examines the lives of Chinese contract laborers in Cuba—“coolies”—in the second half of the nineteenth century after they completed the… read more here.
Keywords: labor; transition; free labor; slavery ... See more keywords