The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom
By Jason Chang, Ben Barson, Alexis Dudden and Kim Inthavong
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The Cargo Rebellion tells a true story of mutiny on the high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise.
The laborers learned that Bryson’s claimed destination of San Francisco was a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands of Peru. Reaching a dramatic tipping point, the mutineers rose up and killed Bryson and several of the ship's officers and then attempted to sail back to China.
This book's centerpiece, a deft graphic account of the rebellion in the context of the “coolie trade” and the struggle to end traffic in human “cargo,” is supported by essays that spotlight the rebellion itself, how the subject of indentured Asian workers is being taught in classrooms, and how Chinese workers shaped the evolution of American music, particularly in the making of the first drum set. The Cargo Rebellion is a history from below that does justice to the memory of hundreds of thousands of indentured workers and demonstrates how Asian migration to the Americas was rooted in slavery, colonialism, and the life-and-death struggle against servitude.
Jason Chang
Jason Chang received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, his Masters in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2005, and his B.A. in Latin American Studies and Political Economy from Prescott College in 2002. He is currently Associate Professor of History and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, where he directs the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute.
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