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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio
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Reports from China detail recent kidnappings of Chinese men near Canton and Whampoa for shipment as contract coolies to Havana, Cuba. Victims are chained in lorchas to Macao, held in barracoons, and sent mainly on French vessels; trade avoids Hong Kong.
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"There have been lately many and gross instances of kidnapping Chinamen, in order to send them as contract coolies to Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neighborhood of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen thus kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in lorchas, to the neighboring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off, chiefly in French vessels, for Cuba."
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There have been lately many and gross instances of kidnapping Chinamen, in order to send them as contract coolies to Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neighborhood of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen thus kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in lorchas, to the neighboring Portuguese settlement of Macao, where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off, chiefly in French vessels, for Cuba.