Katharine Coman (1857 1915) was an American historian and economist
who served as professor and later dean at Wellesley College. Her
works include A History of England (1899), Economic Beginnings of
the Far West (1912), and this 1903 monograph. Written following a
trip to the islands, the short piece focuses upon the use of
imported contract labour in the form of indentured servants. Used
primarily in the sugar industry, the system was, in Coman's view,
one of which the results 'advance d] the interests of the labourers
quite as much as those of the planters'. The United States'
distaste with such arrangements ended this status quo upon
annexation, even though the wage system subsequently imposed
offered fewer opportunities than before. Covering the decades
during which Hawaii underwent massive changes at the hands of
Western powers, Coman's work helps illuminate the multiple layers
of colonial paternalism in the age of imperialism.
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