The Cargo Rebellion: Those Who Chose Freedom -- Jason Chang

<p><b><i>The Cargo Rebellion</i> tells a true story of mutiny on the <br>high seas in which four hundred indentured Chinese men overthrew their <br>captor, the Connecticut businessman and slave trader Leslie Bryson, <br>taking a stand against an exploitative global enterprise.</b> <br></p><p>The<br> laborers learned that Bryson's claimed destination of San Francisco was<br> a lie to trick them into deadly servitude in the dreaded guano islands <br>of Peru. Reaching a dramatic tipping point, the mutineers rose up and <br>killed Bryson and several of the ship's officers and then attempted to <br>sail back to China. </p><p>This book's centerpiece, a deft graphic <br>account of the rebellion in the context of the "coolie trade" and the <br>struggle to end traffic in human "cargo," is supported by essays that <br>spotlight the rebellion itself, how the subject of indentured Asian <br>workers is being taught in classrooms, and how Chinese workers shaped <br>the evolution of American music, particularly in the making of the first<br> drum set. <i>The Cargo Rebellion</i> is a history from below that does <br>justice to the memory of hundreds of thousands of indentured workers and<br> demonstrates how Asian migration to the Americas was rooted in slavery, <br> colonialism, and the life-and-death struggle against servitude.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jason Chang, Benjamin Barson, Alexi Dudden<br><b>Publisher:</b> PM Press<br><b>Published:</b> 03/07/2023<br><b>Pages:</b> 64<br><b>Bindin