I saw an article was published this afternoon by The Conversation, attempting to tell the story of the Coolie Migrant-Laborer force and their comparative struggle-reach to slavery.
"In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad...
thousands of Chinese migrants were recruited to work side by side with African Americans on Louisiana’s sugar plantations after the Civil War...
Desperate to regain power and authority after the war, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters studied and learned from their Caribbean counterparts. They, too, looked to Asian workers for their salvation, fantasizing that so-called “coolies” would be cheap, industrious and submissive – a “model minority” of sorts...
Thousands of Chinese workers landed in Louisiana between 1866 and 1870, recruited from the Caribbean, China and California. Bound to multiyear contracts, they symbolized Louisiana planters’ racial hope for a new system of slavery..."
Moon-Ho Jung
Professor of History, University of Washington
Beth Daley
Editor and General Manager
I think it can be heavily inferred they are trying to rewrite history, the link is below.
"In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad...
thousands of Chinese migrants were recruited to work side by side with African Americans on Louisiana’s sugar plantations after the Civil War...
Desperate to regain power and authority after the war, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters studied and learned from their Caribbean counterparts. They, too, looked to Asian workers for their salvation, fantasizing that so-called “coolies” would be cheap, industrious and submissive – a “model minority” of sorts...
Thousands of Chinese workers landed in Louisiana between 1866 and 1870, recruited from the Caribbean, China and California. Bound to multiyear contracts, they symbolized Louisiana planters’ racial hope for a new system of slavery..."
Moon-Ho Jung
Professor of History, University of Washington
Beth Daley
Editor and General Manager
I think it can be heavily inferred they are trying to rewrite history, the link is below.
Making sugar, making ‘coolies’: Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations
Sugar has deep links with slavery in the US, but Black workers weren’t the only ones affected. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled cutting and processing cane.