他者中的华人

Chinese Among Others_ Emigration in Modern Times_Philip A. Kuhn

[美]孔飞力


The reality of indenture as it affected most Asians after 1850 was a system that resembled slavery in some respects, but substituted a contract for a purchase; the employer owned the worker’s labor but not his body. Yet some aspects of slavery remained, even though dressed up with a contract.