From Bahadurs research I learned that not only women from Asia were having a rough time, Indentured women were forced to sign this contract that would make them work without pay. A limit I would say that Bahadur faced was when her great-grandmother left without mentioning where she was going, so she had nothing to really look into and didn’t really know if her great-grandmother was part the women who were working without pay. Another limit I would say is when Bahadur found those diaries on that ship that had confidential documents on supervisors who slept with the Indian women. This would be a limit because as we know our true his tends to be swept under the rug or not enough is being told, so its difficult to pin point our history/background or in Bahadurs case her background.
John Long great-great-grandson of Anon was being interviewed, he was born in 1947 right after the war and is a native of Canton-Toishan-China and came to the U.S in 1954 and grew up in the inner-city of L.A south central L.A. He moved to the U.S because the communist revolution and the communist purge, so they had to escape. John became a citizen through his father who had already moved to the U.S and was already a citizen, then he started working in the real estate industry and then started his career at Kaufman & Broad finance department. John’s oral history confirms what i knew about Asian-Americans. I knew that some Asian-Americans come to the U.S for a better life and better jobs due to life threatening events that happens back home, but I feel like it’s only Asians, there are people from the Caribbean that leave their country because its rough and some go through life threatening experiences. So it’s a first-person confirmation.
