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Thousand Pieces of Gold
Title: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 422 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thousand Pieces of Gold
THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD
Lalu was a Chinese-American pioneer woman who overcomes poverty, footbinding, and slavery to build a life of relative freedom
in the American Northwest. From Shanghai to San Francisco, Lalu's courageous journey was an important contribution to the history of
Asian pioneer women on the American frontier.
Lalu is first sold to a brothel and then to a slave merchant bound for America, before being auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and
finally offered …showed first 75 words of 422 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 422 total…Charlie wins her years later in a poker game. She lives with him, but in fierce chastity, until Charlie is shot and as Lalu nurses him
back to health, she falls in love with him.
So it was hard for Lalu because slavery began in 1870's and when it ended, Lalu didn't even realize that and still was a slave
until someone told her. So it was really hard for her. She went through alot.
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