Author：Lucy M. Cohen

Publisher：Louisiana State University Press

Publishing Year：1984

Call Number：F220.C5C678

Introduction：This book is a study of efforts to introduce Chinese as substitutes for emancipated slaves in the South, and especially in Louisiana, after the Civil War. Relatively small numbers of Chinese were bought to the region, and the contract system under which they were employed was a failure. Because of changing concepts of race relations in the nation and in the region and because of the system of social organization prevalent at the time, the Chinese who remained in the area disappeared from the public awareness as a distinct group.