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Coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, khuli, khulie, cooli, cooly, or quli) is a pejorative term used for low-wage labourers, typically those of Indian or Chinese descent. [1][2][3] The word coolie was first used in the 16th century by European traders across Asia. By the 18th century, the term referred to migrant Indian indentured labourers.
On February 19, 1862, the 37th United States Congress passed An Act to Prohibit the "Coolie Trade" by American Citizens in American Vessels. [1] The act, which would be called the Anti-Coolie Act of 1862 in short, was passed by the California State Legislature in an attempt to appease rising anger among white laborers about salary competition created by the influx of Chinese immigrants at the ...
The Idaho Youth Ranch (IYR) is an American non-profit charity operating in Idaho. It was founded in 1953 by James and Ruby Carey Crowe. It was founded in 1953 by James and Ruby Carey Crowe. Idaho Youth Ranch programs include counseling & therapy services for youth and families, Hays House, a youth crisis shelter, YOUTHWORKS!, a job readiness ...
The "ranch" in 99 Ranch means freshness (“as if straight from a ranch,” Alice says) and the "99," in Mandarin Chinese pronounced jiu jiu,is a homophone for longevity. “The double meaning is 99%.
Located on the southwest corner of Cole and Ustick Roads, the Idaho Asian Plaza was envisioned as Boise’s Chinatown. ‘Soooo good’: New restaurant opens in Boise’s planned ‘Chinatown’ mall.
Chinese industry executives will get a first taste of “Coolie,” a big-budget historical miniseries that focuses on the enslaved Chinese workers in Cuba in the 1860s. MM2 Entertainment is ...
Chinese labor in the southern United States. After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations. Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also ...
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