Chinese Opium-Smokers in the late XIX Century in the US

Chinese Opium-Smokers – In the nineteenth-century thousands of Chinese people crossed the ocean to find work in the United States.

They began arriving in San Francisco in 1849. Many found work as laborers, while a small number worked in the opium trade.

Related articles: History of the Chinese Diaspora in America

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