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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Donaldina Cameron - Freedom Fighter
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Today, we are talking about an active and daring freedom fighter from California history!
For decades after America’s largest migration, the gold rush began, the men who came alone to California to seek their fortunes longed for wives and women of pleasure. It was easier for Chinese traders to convince families to sell their daughters rather than their sons. The traders would offer money to the parents for their daughters, some as young as five years old. The parents were straight up lied to...