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- Title
CHINESE LABOURERS, FREE BLACKS, AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING IN THE POST-EMANCIPATION BRITISH WEST INDIES.
- Authors
Bischof, Christopher
- Abstract
The article discusses white planters of the British West Indies' efforts to attract Chinese indentured labourers to address labour shortages following the emancipation of slaves during the first half of the 19th century, including in regard to their refusal to pay free blacks higher wages to work on their plantations. The economic implications for the British Empire's imperial policy towards labour are discussed.
- Subjects
CARIBBEAN; WEST Indies; CHINESE foreign workers; FREE Black people; RACE relations; EMANCIPATION of slaves; FARMERS; INDENTURED servants; IMPERIALISM -- Economic aspects; NINETEENTH century; ECONOMICS; HISTORY; BRITISH West Indies; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Past & Present, 2016, Vol 231, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtw015