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Five Generations at Cameron House

September 16, 2019 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

The Rev. Harry Chuck can trace his family’s history at 920 Sacramento Street back to the late 19th century.

That’s when his grandmother was sold into slavery by her impoverished family in China. Her owners sent her to San Francisco but she was intercepted by immigration officials before she reached one of Chinatown’s many brothels. They brought her instead to the Presbyterian Mission Home on 920 Sacramento Street, which was established in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1874 as a refuge for vulnerable women.

The Rev. Harry Chuck at Cameron House, photo by author.

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Filed Under: Asian Americans, Human Trafficking, The Writing Life Tagged With: Chinese American History, family history, History

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