• @ruk_n_rul
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    11 year ago

    I’m waist deep into A History of Selangor book right now and apparently the American miners I mentioned a few days ago did start a tin mining operation near Reko (near Kajang) using Orang Hitam labourers. 🤔

    • @dukeGR4
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      21 year ago

      as in African-Americans?

        • @cendawanita
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          11 year ago

          Could be Orang Asli as well? Africans seem like such a ways away but fascinating fact regardless

          • @ruk_n_rul
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            1 year ago

            This was a recounting from the local Malays, who always knew the orang aslis by other, more specific, names. Even the book clarified them as Blacks.

            I forgot to date the story but it’s from the 1840s.

            Anyway, here’s a full excerpt:

            • @dukeGR4
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              11 year ago

              sike, it’s actually orang minyak

              • @ruk_n_rul
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                11 year ago

                Could be? Imagine being the American blacks, with their mixed christian-voodoo-west african beliefs, transplanted for labour to a foreign land with no b*tches. What do? 🤔

            • @cendawanita
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              11 year ago

              My my my what an interesting piece of history indeed!

    • just another rakyat
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      11 year ago

      Oh nice, since that’s my hood maybe I should investigate a bit.