Interview with Ume Akisada #1 6/16/88
Interview with Ume Akisada recorded on June 16, 1988 and conducted by Chris Conybeare and Barbara Kawakami. Topics include how her parents came to Hawaiʻi, her family history working on sugar plantations, quitting school as a child to work, how women and girls were taken from Hawaiʻi and sold into prostitution, how she became a maid, and her experiences working as a teenager.
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