The North basically did not ideologically confront this new proto slave coolie labor force directly, but they were pouring into the far west nevertheless, where they did.
Lincoln's Immigration Act is almost certainly intended to nip Asian coolie indentured serf importation, as well as render obsolete negro labor, slave or free, in America.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
RE IMMIGRATION HISTORY DK POST
"...For the new party, the spread of slavery, rather than the growth of immigration, was the main threat to free laborers in the North...." DK
The Republican Party was certainly founded on white Northern racism, and the issue of slavery alone.
Certainly Northern white racist fear mongering was what swept Lincoln into office and into the Civil War....................
Thursday, June 13, 2019
WIKIPEDIA HISTORY OF CHINESE AMERICANS
Funny, no mention, in this whole, long, Whiggish, Sinophile Wikipedia article, of Lincoln's Immigration Act of July 4, 1864.
Not a fricking word!
Wonder why? Wiki Wonkish. Krugman could explain it to you.
Not a fricking word!
Wonder why? Wiki Wonkish. Krugman could explain it to you.
The Chinese had been pouring in by the hundreds of thousands both before and after Lincoln's band aid.
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