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oct 27, 1839 - Trade in "coolies" takes rise

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"Coolies" were indentured servants that were contracted from China and India. These took helped to take up the manual labor shortage once the Atlantic slave trade ended. The supply may have been cut-off, but the demand remained.

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oct 27, 1839
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~ 186 years ago