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West Argyle Street Historic District (also known as Little Saigon, [1] New Chinatown, and Asia on Argyle) is a historic district in northern Uptown, Chicago, Illinois.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 2010.
Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, harboring or preventing the arrest of a fugitive slave was punishable by a $500 fine and possible enslavement for free blacks. Further, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 led to manhunts by mercenary slave catchers, many of whom were not beyond capturing and putting into slavery free blacks that had never been ...
The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [1] [7] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. [5] On the journey, they were suspected of being runaway slaves and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver. [7] [8]
The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [4] [10] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. [2] [6] On the journey, they were suspected of being runaway slaves and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver. [10] [11]
Looking to escape the anti-Chinese violence that had broken out on the west coast, the first Chinese people arrived in Chicago after 1869 when the First transcontinental railroad was completed. [4] Aside from ethnic violence, governments on the west coast had begun to systematically target Chinese people, such as a 1870 San Francisco ordinance ...
The Swede Aurora Nilsson, who lived in Kabul from 1926 to 1927, described the occurrence of slavery in Kabul in her memoirs, [11] as well as how a German woman, the widow of an Afridi man named Abdullah Khan, who had fled to the city with her children from her late husband's successor, was sold at public auction and obtained her freedom by ...
South Asians had been present in colonial America since at least 1635 with the recording of an East Indian man named "Tony" in the Colony of Virginia.They were brought over as indentured servants and sometimes slaves who eventually assimilated into the dominant white and black American populations.
After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations. Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also contributed to the labor supply.