White Devils Daughters
From the bestselling author of The House of Mondavi a riveting, revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943)--and the safe house that became a refuge for those seeking… Celý popis ↓
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White Devils Daughters
From the bestselling author of The House of Mondavi a riveting, revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first hundred years of Chinese immigration (1848-1943)--and the safe house that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom.Beginning in 1874, the Occidental Mission Home on the edge of San Francisco's Chinatown served as a gateway to freedom for thousands of enslaved young Chinese women and girls. With compassion and an investigative historian's sharp eye, Siler tells the story of this remarkable safe house. Run by Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron (known to her enemies as the White Devil of Chinatown), Tien Fuh Wu, and other courageous female abolitionists, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violent attacks.
She shows how Dolly and her colleagues defied contemporary convention--even
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