"We know them all as men who shall receive the protection of the law": Chinese Participants in the Courts of Port Townsend, Washington Territory
Studies of the relationship between American law and Chinese migrants in the nineteenth century have focused upon the legal, administrative, and social effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), elite merchant use of contract law, and the failure of law enforcement to address or prevent mass anti-...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44995 |