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Book Review

Moon-Hu Jung, Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006. pp. xii + 275. US $48.95 cloth.

At the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the emancipation of four million slaves raised major questions about the future labour supply of the America South. When emancipation had occurred in the British West Indies after 1833, sugar planters imported Asian indentured labour. In Cuba, too, planters sought Chinese labourers with the end of slave shipments there, even though slavery continued in Cuba itself after 1866. Though set within this larger transnational picture of the age of emancipation, Moon-Hu Jung's Coolies and Cane: Race, Labour, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation concentrates on the story of indentured Chinese labour in the Louisiana sugar country. This and the surrounding discourse on the 'coolie trade' are treated at length. California's opposition to Chinese labour was connected to fears of a recurrence of slavery – fears that labour agitators played upon. But this study shows that American attitudes towards indentured and particularly Chinese labour were not forged around California's experience alone.

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