The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown

by Julia Flynn Siler

Book Overview

During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration--from 1848 to 1943--San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. The Occidental Mission...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101875267
• ISBN13: 9781101875261
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.4"