Historical Petition: Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States

Chinese Six Companies

Historical Petition: Memorial of the Chinese Six Companies to U.S. Grant, President of the United States

1876

Historical Petition

The West Windsor-Plainsboro Online Library features an 1876 petition by the Chinese Six Companies—a benevolent organization of the six most prominent Chinese companies in California—to President Ulysses S. Grant that provides a perspective on the value of Chinese laborers to the United States. The source gives an account of anti-Chinese discrimination and lawmakers' efforts to ban Chinese immigration. Some other themes include: the value of labor on the transcontinental railroad and Chinese labor as free labor.

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