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Thread: The History of Chinese People in Early California
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[quote=MODESTNOMORE ,26432]The Chinese were another target of Californian racism. In 1848 there were said to be only 3 Chinese in California, but a year later there were 700. By 1850 the number had grown to 3000, increasing in 1852 to 10,000. First, they did not face any opposition from the Americans, since they did all the work the Americans refused to do for little money. Later on, the Americans feared being driven out by the Chinese who might be used to lower the wages. In meetings, many camps decided to expel the Chinese from the diggings. Where they were allowed to stay, they were forced to work on separate, exhausted soil that only allowed a return of one or two dollars per day per laborer. Since California courts did not allow the Chinese to testify, they organized their own district unions from 1851 onwards, not only to handle disputes but also to take responsibility for the care of the sick and burial of the dead. The main obstacle to the integration of the Chinese into the community of American miners was their wage labor which seemed to contradict the Californian ideology of free labor and was used to combine discrimination against the Chinese with agitation against the evils of capitalism.[/quote]
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