by Peilin Lu, Yale University ’26
Written for HIST 156J: Capitalism, Labor & Class Politics in Modern U.S.
Edited by Danielle Burke, Chloe Rhee, Taja Richardson, Ladia Khaing, Grace Ort, Kevin Guo, and Annabeth Meeks
“Slave Pens of China Upon Free Soil”: Debating Chinese Labor in American Imperialist, Capitalist, and Emancipatory Politics, from Coolieism to Exclusion, 1834-1882
