[4CJ]

So they could gun the coolies down the night before payday, and the Chinese didn't have a big old navy they could send over to protect their nationals from these guys?

Correctamundo. Besides, the coolies worked for slave wages, while free blacks would have required much higher wages.

Over 10,000 posts deleted in a few months. Purging history always was a solution to hiding the truth.

[lentulusgracchus]

Purging history always was a solution to hiding the truth.

That's how you shape Jack Rakove's "usable history".