Identifier: cooliehisrightsw00jenk (find matches)
Title: The coolie, his rights and wrongs
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Jenkins, Edward, 1838-1910
Subjects: Chinese -- Guyana Working class -- Guyana Labor movement -- Guyana Labor -- Guyana
Publisher: New York : George Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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master or servant. Every one will see in a momentwhat a vast numrer of issues may arise out of thissingular apprenticeship. I cannot more readily and succinctly bring beforemy readers the nature of the issues involved in thelate inquiry than by referring them to two woodcuts,copied from caricatures executed and brought to mein Georgetown by a clever Chinese immigrant, whohad been a schoolmaster in his own country. Theoriginals—obviously Chinese in style and execu-tion, and I am assured original in their invention—are coloured, and several times larger than thespirited reproduction by the artist. Not only havethey the quaint artistic ingenuity of the Chinese, butthey will give an idea of the shrewdness and cunningability which are common to all these Asiatic immi-grants in stating and systematizing their grievances. The picture on p. 8 is a tolerably fair representa-tion of a managers house on its brick pillars. Tothe left, at the bottom of the picture, is a free Coolie THE COOLIE.
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INTRODUCTORY. g driving his cattle. To the right a rural constable isseizing an unhappy pigtail to convey him to the lock-up, being absent, as we see, from the band just abovehim, with his arms unbound. This indicates that heis trying to avoid the restraints of his indenture, andfor this he is liable to punishment. Above him, on theright of the picture, is a group of Chinese, and on theleft of the steps a group of Coolies, represented withtheir arms bound, an emblem of indentureship. Theyalways speak of themselves as bound when underindenture. At the foot of the steps, on either side,is a Chinaman and a Coolie, from whose breasts twodrivers are drawing blood with a knife, the life fluidbeing caught by boys in the swizzle-glasses of thecolony. A boy is carrying the glasses up the stepsto the attorney and the manager, who sit on the leftof the verandah, and who are obviously fattening atthe expense of the bound people below them. A tatwife and children look out of the windows. Behind,th

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