At the height of building of the transcontinental railroad, the Chinese crews of the Central Pacific laid ten miles of track in one day. For $40,000 a year plus free message traffic for the govt, the first transcontinental telegraph wire was laid to San Fran in under 4 months.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1321499007370301441 …
Yeah, but they weren't slaves, either. They came here for opportunity (and to escape civil war). Gordon Chang's book Ghosts of Gold Mountain makes a good case that they were generally not forcibly impressed coolies.
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Lol, Gordon Chang


Yeah, those laborers had the best of times, and a great 401k to boot! -
Yes, what would a Chinese-American historian from Stanford know?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/books/review/gordon-h-chang-ghosts-of-gold-mountain.html …
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