“But how did the immigration officials know?” A student interjected into a discussion of the mechanics of Chinese exclusion in class on themes in U.S. History.We had been considering a chapter from Stacey Smith’s Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle Over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. In the chapter Smith explores California’s antecedents to the […]
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