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The white devil's daughters the women who fought slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

"A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom From 1874, a house on the edge...

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Main Author: Siler, Julia Flynn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Human trafficking > California > San Francisco.
Social work with prostitutes > California > San Francisco > History.
Chinese > California > San Francisco > History.
Women abolitionists > United States > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Queen's room
  • "The cussedest place for women"
  • Reveille cry
  • "No ordinary person"
  • Victorian compromise
  • Inked thumbprints
  • The celestial quarter
  • "To have a little Chinaman"
  • Baiting the hook
  • Life as a mui tsai
  • "A worse slavery than ever uncle tom knew of "
  • Dynamite
  • Devil's playground
  • Chinatown in tears
  • Year of the rat
  • Instant fame
  • Municipal storm
  • "Forcing me into the life"
  • "I may go to sleep tonight and then find myself in hell!"
  • A deathbed promise
  • Taking public stands
  • Pink curtain
  • Courage to fight evil
  • The Chinese Mark Twain
  • 'Ell of a place!
  • The Lord is my shepherd
  • "The stress of circumstances"
  • Homecomings
  • Municipal crib
  • Paper son
  • Dragon stories
  • Tiny
  • Missionaries of the home
  • Matchmaking
  • The "joy zone"
  • Fruit tramps
  • "Are you wearing a mask and taking precautions?"
  • Quiet defiance
  • Sargy
  • Bessie
  • Heavens for courage
  • The thwack of bouncing balls
  • Little general
  • Shangri-la
  • Broken blossoms
  • Epilogue: "Blessed Tien."

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