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The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
By Siler, Julia Flynn
- ISBN
- 9781101875261 9781101875278
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Reviewed on June 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
Starting in the mid-19th century, Chinese immigrants arrived in California to participate in the Gold Rush and work on the Transcontinental Railroad. The vast majority were men, and thus a lucrative human trafficking operation developed that smuggled Chinese women and girls to the United States, forcing them to work in brothels or as domestic servants. Journalist Siler (The Lost Kingdom) tells the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
