A History of Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Abolitionist Movement

For 5 years after the adoption of 13^th amendment to the US Constitution abolishing slavery in 1865, women and girls from China were bought and sold out in the open in the city of San Francisco. Eventually this slave trade went underground but would continue up until the 1930s.

Today we are joined by author and historian Julia Flynn Siler to talk about this history and the abolitionist movement against it. She is the author of the new book The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown.