Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation by Moon-Ho Jung

Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation

Moon-Ho Jung

288 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and th...

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