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Chinese Prostitution In The Late 1800s
Many of the imported Chinese women landed in California and progressed to Nevada by the 1900s but in the years of 1800 to mid-1850s, Chinese prostitution bloomed. While many unnamed Chinese women lost to the flow of prostitution, some managed to escaped being a prostitutes and found refuge in mission homes and one of the leading crusades for helping Chinese prostitutes was Donaldina Cameron. Very little Chinese women were able to govern the work schedules nor are there any successful stories but a somewhat well-known Chinese prostitute, Ah Toy rose from prostitute to Madam.
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