History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0185 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Railroad Labour and the Credit Ticket
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The idea
Chinese workers built much of the transcontinental railroad and worked former cotton plantations in the South after emancipation.
In practice
A labourer whose passage was paid in advance by a businessman, to be repaid from his wages.
Where people slip
That credit-ticket arrangement tied workers to debt, a labour obligation owed before the first day's work began.
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