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The White Devil's Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
Division of Research Programs
Photo caption
A Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, 1892.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
A Street in Chinatown, San Francisco, 1892.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Julia Flynn Siler's book The White Devil's Daughters details San Francisco's nineteenth- and early twentieth-century slave trade in Asian women and tells the story of a group of female Christian abolitionists who offered them escape in a safe house on the edge of Chinatown.