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That's literally their backstory in the novel afair.
This is intentional.
The illustrations in the original book were very...um... politically incorrect.
I have read that the Oompa Loompas were originally just black people and even for the time the publisher thought that was a bit much.
They were changed from African pygmies in later versions of the book. You can still find early copies which describe them explicitly as such:
Jesus, there are people that just need to shoehorn in some moralizing in every goddamn thread, isn't there?
Thanks for that hot take.