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Why are the owners/masters all women? Chinese women at that, unlike slavery, are the master and the servant are of the same race and background. First off, if majority of the Chinese that immigrated were men, where do these women come from, and how do they have power? --Aqsa Z. | Why are the owners/masters all women? Chinese women at that, unlike slavery, are the master and the servant are of the same race and background. First off, if majority of the Chinese that immigrated were men, where do these women come from, and how do they have power? --Aqsa Z. | ||
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| + | I was incredibly surprised by the contracts of the Chinese prostitutes. The terms were familiar: she was sick for a certain amount of days, she had to make it up by serving an extra month; if she got pregnant, she had to serve an extra year. If I am remembering correctly female indentured servants had similar terms of agreement, but their lives must have been better than serving their years as a prostitute. Also, was this a common thing for Chinese women to do? Why were they doing this? Are they serving as prostitutes to send money back to their families?-- Emma C. | ||
== Xin Jin's Contract, San Francisco, 1886== | == Xin Jin's Contract, San Francisco, 1886== | ||
