shipping-agencies

Updated: May 5, 2025

The planter, always short of laborers, has heretofore been willing to pay the shipping-agencies four hundred dollars for a newly-arrived coolie, whose services he thus secured for eight years, the coolies at the expiration of the period to receive a mere nominal sum, out of which they have mostly been cheated by some means or other.

Maturin Murray Ballou - Due South or Cuba Past and Present