When she was young, Tien Fuh Wu (1886-1975) was sold by her father to pay his gambling debts in China. Sent to San Francisco as a servant, she was burned with candle wax when the woman she worked for was dissatisfied.
She escaped to the Presbyterian Mission House, a refuge for enslaved girls and women. Resourceful and focused, Wu learned English and attended an elite boarding school and Bible college. She returned to the mission, and for decades, helped other women escape slavery and hard labor.
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