Treatment of Peoples of Color

How did Mexicans earn a living in the late 1800's, and where did they do this work?
-Mexicans were hired to construct rail lines and needed for mining and the agriculture in the Southwest.
Describe African-American life in the 1800's (where did they move to, what was their experience, etc?)
-Mexicans and African- Americans in the Southwest, where forced into debt peonage which was a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.


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