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Making sugar, making 'coolies': Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations

  • Written by Moon-Ho Jung, Professor of History, University of Washington
Making sugar, making 'coolies': Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantationsHarvesting on a Louisiana sugar plantation, 1875.Alfred R. Waud/Library of Congress

Editor’s note: This article quotes historical sources using terms now considered racist to describe Black and Asian workers.

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