Title In quest of coolies / by James L.A. Hope

Published London [England] : Henry S. King & Co., 1872

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ADPML SPC	919.6 Hop/Iqo		LIB USE ONLY

Description x, 137 pages, 16 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm Notes The author's adventures recruiting labor in the New Hebrides for Queensland sugar plantations Includes the Polynesian Laborers Act, passed by the Queensland Government in 1868 (p. [117]-137) Subject Slave trade -- Polynesia. Contract labor -- Polynesia. Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Employment -- Australia -- Queensland. Contract labor -- Australia -- Queensland. Melanesians -- Australia -- Queensland. Contract labor -- Oceania. SUBJECT Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104688 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851 Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278 Author Queensland. Polynesian Laborers Act

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