What happens in history is different from how people remember it, which happens in things like books, movies, and songs. The story at the heart of this book - the Robert Bowne rebellion - is visual and visceral and begs to be told out-loud, and that's how the CARGO project began. Archival research into this lone event spurred questions of how to make urgent the broader history at its core: the exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Chinese and South Asian workers in the 'coolie trade.' Thanks for reading and for thinking about everything involved.