Thousand Pieces of Gold

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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 as a prize in a pokergame where Charlie won her.

So at the beginning, Lalu was sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and au



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Approximate Word count = 423
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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