‘Coolie” is a term for manual laborers…

April 1862 CE

‘Coolie” is a term for manual laborers from Asia, particularly China and India.

Americans ridicule British use of Asian laborers on their newly "emancipated" colonial possessions as replacing one form of slavery with another.

Chinese immigration to the United States is almost entirely voluntary, but working and social conditions are still harsh.

After 1860, Congressional representatives from the West had begun to insist this was slavery.

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signs "An Act to Prohibit the ‘Coolie Trade.'"

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