Peru prohibits the importation of workers from the Pacific islands

Peru prohibited the importation of workers from the Pacific Islands.  These workers had been treated as virtual slaves after the country banned African slavery in 1854. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
Junius P. Rodriguez, Chronology of World Slavery (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 185.
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