One sheet, printed on both sides, of a bilingual contract of a Chinese indentured laborer in Cuba, completed in ink

by Chinese-Cuban Labor Contract

$1,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Sheet 318 x 207 mm. , one side printed entirely in Spanish, the other headed in Spanish with terms of indenture in Chinese. Probably China: 1858. A remarkable survival. “To supplement a dwindling slave labor force on their sugar plantations, Cuban planters turned to south China’s Fujian and especially Guangdong provinces. From 1847 to 1874 they recruited 141,000 male laborers 125,000 of whom arrived in Cuba alive . Slave-like work and living

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