Commission anxiety over European beggars contrasts with routine colonial coercion of laborers

Evidence

To students of the colonial Indies, this would seem trivial stuff in a colony where coerced labor was still prevalent, where indentured labor was enforced, and where thrashings of estate workers were still the order of the day. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 878

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the moral-panic-scale reordering in other colonial/legal readings the reader does; the scale of concern is wildly disproportionate to the harm.