To: skeeter
Some of the Chinese came here voluntarily, some more as indentured servants, I believe.
34 posted on
04/30/2003 8:18:28 AM PDT by
Eva
To: Eva
Some of the Chinese came here voluntarily, some more as indentured servants, I believe.Yep, as did many Irish.
36 posted on
04/30/2003 8:20:51 AM PDT by
skeeter
(Fac ut vivas)
To: Eva
Some of the Chinese came here voluntarily, some more as indentured servants, I believe. How many know I wonder that thousands of Irish and English women and men were forcibly brought over here as slaves and servants in the 17th and 18th century before the practice was passed off to blacks.
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