Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese Yankee

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

272 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical history emotional slow-paced
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Chinese Yankee by Ruthanne Lum McCunn tells the true story of Hong Kong born Thomas Sylvanus (Ah Yee Way), an orphan brought to America for schooling in the mid-1850s, but enslaved in Baltimore. Only sixteen at the outbreak of war, Thomas ran nort...

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