{"title":"Julia Flynn Siler","description":"Julia Flynn Siler is an award-winning journalist. Her book, The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, was a New York Times best seller. She has written for Business Week and the New York Times, and is now a contributing writer for the Wall Street Journal in San Francisco.","products":[{"product_id":"lost-kingdom-hawaiias-last-queen-the-sugar-kings-and-americaas-first-imperial-venture-paperback","title":"Lost Kingdom: Hawaiia's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and Americaa's First Imperial Venture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Only one American state was formally a sovereign monarchy. In this compelling narrative, the award-winning journalist Julia Flynn Siler chronicles how this Pacific kingdom, creation of a proud Polynesian people, was encountered, annexed, and absorbed.\" --Kevin Starr, historian, University of Southern California \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround 200 A.D., intrepid Polynesians paddled thousands of miles across the Pacific and arrived at an undisturbed archipelago. For centuries, their descendants lived with almost no contact from the Western world but in 1778 their profound isolation was shattered with the arrival of Captain Cook. Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, \u003ci\u003eLost Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the ensuing clash between the vulnerable Polynesian people and the relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. 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In this gripping, necessary book, bestselling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history--and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped. The Occidental Mission Home, situated on the edge of Chinatown, served as a gateway to freedom for thousands. Run by a courageous group of female Christian abolitionists, it survived earthquakes, fire, bubonic plague, and violent attacks. We meet Dolly Cameron, who ran the home from 1899 to 1934, and Tien Fuh Wu, who arrived at the house as a young child after her abuse as a household slave drew the attention of authorities. Wu would grow up to become Cameron's translator, deputy director, and steadfast friend. Siler shows how Dolly and her colleagues defied convention and even law--physically rescuing young girls from brothels, snatching them from their smugglers--and how they helped bring the exploiters to justice. Riveting and revelatory, \u003ci\u003eThe White Devil's Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely, extraordinary account of oppression, resistance, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368267088095,"sku":"9781101910290","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Aye_mXY1uu9781101910290.webp?v=1789125145"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/julia-flynn-siler.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}