History of Macau: Difference between revisions

 

From 1848 to about the early 1870s, Macau was the infamous transit port of a trade of [[coolies]] (or slave labourers) from southern China. Most of them were kidnapped from the [[Guangdong]] province and were shipped off in packed vessels to [[Cuba]], Peru, or other South American ports to work on plantations or in mines. Many died on the way there due to malnutrition, disease, or other mistreatment. The ''Dea del Mar'' which had set sail to [[Callao]] from Macau in 1865 with 550 Chinese on board, arrived in [[Tahiti]] with only 162 of them still alive.{{cn|date=October 2021}}

 

== 1938–1949: World War II ==