Post by NZBC on Jan 2, 2009 9:13:25 GMT 12
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In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a small number of Chinese men, immigrants from the southeastern province of Guangdong, China, appeared for the first time in the Mississippi delta farming region. Why did they leave China, and what led them to come to the Delta? Unlike their thousands of kinsmen who settled in northern California seeking gam sahn, the fabled Gold Mountain, the Chinese entering the delta certainly were not enticed by prospects of wealth contained in any mountains of cotton.
In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a small number of Chinese men, immigrants from the southeastern province of Guangdong, China, appeared for the first time in the Mississippi delta farming region. Why did they leave China, and what led them to come to the Delta? Unlike their thousands of kinsmen who settled in northern California seeking gam sahn, the fabled Gold Mountain, the Chinese entering the delta certainly were not enticed by prospects of wealth contained in any mountains of cotton.