Donaldina Cameron captured the nation’s imagination at the turn of the 20th century. She was an early anti-human trafficking pioneer who ran a safe house for vulnerable girls and young women on the edge of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Read an excerpt from “The White Devil’s Daughters,” by Bay Area author Julia Flynn Siler.
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Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her new book, “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown,” was published by Alfred A. Knopf in May of 2019. She is also the author of “Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings,” and “America’s First Imperial Adventure and the The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty.”
As a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek magazine, Siler spent more than two decades in the Europe and the United States.