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This resource consists of historical documents about Chinese coolies imported to Cuba during the 19th century. Its goal is to highlight the human experience during the coolie trade and to encourage critical thinking about how the coolie trade and coolies were portrayed and discussed internationally. The "coolie trade" refers to the importation of Asian contract laborers especially Chinese and Indians under force or deception during the 19th century. It emerged during the "gradual abolition" of slavery in the early 19th century, and coolies were exploited as substitutes for slave labor. The British were the first to experiment with this infamous form of labor migration when they imported Chinese to Trinidad in , when the British ended the slave trade.

In small groups and class discussion, students share knowledge about Christopher Columbus and his voyages, learn about the impact of Columbus, and consider some ecological and political results of the encounter. Students may have very different kinds of responses: Lessons on this subject for the lower grades tend not to dwell on the cruelty and genocide of the European invaders, while lessons for the upper grades usually do include it. Students from other countries will probably have a different view than those who went to school in the United States. In Italy, Columbus is celebrated as a great explorer.

People of African descent have been inextricably linked to the history of the land now known as Texas since the earliest days of colonization. African American Texans have created culture and community despite being subjected to racism and oppression in the form of enslavement, segregation, and violence, and have improved the state of Texas with valuable cultural and historical contributions. With their arrival in , people of African descent, enslaved and free, were instrumental in the settlement of Spanish Texas.