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| | == Bills of Sale of Chinese Prostitutes, 1875-76 == | | == Bills of Sale of Chinese Prostitutes, 1875-76 == |
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| − | | + | What I found interesting about these bills of sale is how they reflect the situations these women were going through when they had to to be sold. While today a sum of $470, like in Mee Yung's case (page 237) is laughable for four years of service today, we cannot know why or what the money paid for. Most likely this money went to paying for her passage over or to her destitute parents who desperately needed the money or thought her too much the burden to raise. I do wonder where this money went and whether these women survived and moved beyond prostitution. -Heather T. |
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| | == Susan Shelby Magoffin in Santa Fe, 1846 == | | == Susan Shelby Magoffin in Santa Fe, 1846 == |
