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Did these women choose to come to America, or were they forced? Was life in China really that bad? I don't understand why they would put themselves through this when they don't get any benefits from it. --Ashley V. | Did these women choose to come to America, or were they forced? Was life in China really that bad? I don't understand why they would put themselves through this when they don't get any benefits from it. --Ashley V. | ||
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| + | How sad that she was treated like an item or something you trade. I was also wondering about what four loathsome disease's she could get? Also four and a half years for $524, I guess back then it was a lot of money and the restrictions she had on that loan must have been awful. It also sound like to me that they didn't treat the Chinese women very well and they had no other job skills so they could make their life better. I wonder, like Ashley, did these women come forced or because they wanted to?-- Pam P. | ||
== New York Prositutes by William Sanger, 1858== | == New York Prositutes by William Sanger, 1858== | ||
