Tien Fuh Wu grew up in Zehjiang, China in the late 1800's. She was forced to work in a brothel to pay off gambling debts her father generated. By the age of ten she was sent to San Francisco to continue her life of servitude and physical abuse. In 1894 she was rescued by a local missionary, who worked to free the imprisoned women. Her body was covered with burns, cuts, and bruises from years of abuse. After being rescued Tien Fuh Wu served as a translator for the mission that once rescued her. She helped Donaldina Cameron liberate Chinese women in San Francisco from a vicious system of servitude.
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