Chinese Underground Railroad
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Chinese Underground Railroad
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The Chinese Underground Railroad was an imaginary route through the borderland between the United States and Mexico, especially around El Paso, Texas. Because of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese immigrants, with the help of Chinese laborers living in Mexico and smugglers, would illegally enter the United States in order to bypass the act. Similar to the Underground Railroad that brought African American slaves to free states in the Northern United States and Canada, the Chinese Undergroun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Underground_Railroad
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2024-01-12T20:15:00Z
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