Question

Explain about coolie ship of 19 century
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Answer 1

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Explanation:

Twenty years of retirement spent poring over the copperplate of 19th century British Colonial Office records, ship’s logs, and trading-house archives has produced Coolie Ships of the Chinese Diaspora (1846-1874) – part catalogue of vessels transporting Chinese labourers, and part mix of Two Years Before the Mast and Mutiny on the Bounty.

Answer 2

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Introduction

The "coolie trade" refers to the importation of Asian contract laborers (especially Chinese and Indians) under force or deception during the 19th century. It emerged during the "gradual abolition" of slavery in the early 19th century, and coolies were exploited as substitutes for slave labor.

The British were the first to experiment with this infamous form of labor migration when they imported 200 Chinese to Trinidad in 1806, when the British ended the slave trade. By 1838, some 25,000 East Indians had been exported to the new British East African colony of Mauritius. While Indian coolies were mainly transported inside British colonies, 250,000 to 500,000 Chinese coolies were imported from 1847-1874 to various British, French, Dutch and Spanish colonies in the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia. During this twenty-seven year period, about 125,000 Chinese coolies were sent to Cuba. They were predominantly men from southern China exported via Macao (then a Portuguese colony). Eighty percent or more were sent directly to sugar plantations.

Sources

The following sources are about the experiences of Chinese coolie laborers in Cuba and how the coolie trade was discussed internationally.

1. Excerpts from a report submitted by a Chinese commission sent to Cuba in 1874 to investigate the mistreatment of Chinese laborers. In less than two months, the Cuban Commission collected 1,176 depositions and 85 petitions supported by 1,665 signatures, all vividly demonstrating the miserable lives of Chinese coolies in Cuba.

PDF iconThe Cuba Commission.pdf

The Cuba Commission Report: A Hidden History of the Chinese in Cuba, The Original English-Language Text of 1876. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1993.

2. A New York Times article in 1860 that advocates for United States governmental actions against the coolie trade and compares the coolie trade with Chinese migration to the United States.

PDF iconAmerican Coolie Trade Excerpts.pdf

"The American Coolie-Trade." New York Times, April 21, 1860, sec. 4.