A local order creates a special immigration commissioner, part of the administrative apparatus for recruiting and distributing contracted labor. After formerly enslaved people resisted plantation work on the terms imposed by former enslavers, colonial authorities sought workers from overseas and expanded bureaucratic control over their recruitment and contracts.
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How did the worker booklet function after 28 July 1852?
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The booklet system made worker status and movement legible to colonial authorities.