01-26-2004, 07:52 AM
Quote:Maybe Asians weren't enslaved but there were pretty much a despised minority who were not welcome by others.I seem to recall that much of dangerous construction (e.g. transcontinental railroad in the western US) were built by press ganged asian labor. Just another form of slavery really.
"...The Chinese!...that population...are to be to California what the African has been to the South...", The California Farmer, May 25, 1854