The girls she saved called her Lo Mo, Chinese for Beloved Mother; the men she thwarted called her Fahn Quai, the White Devil; and history calls her Chinatown’s Angry Angel. Donaldina Cameron left a safe, cozy life as a young woman to take on a most remarkable and dangerous mission: From 1895 until her retirement 47 years later, this missionary waged war against the slave traders who imported Chinese girls to the United States for servitude and prostitution. Historian Dorothy Gray calls her
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