Bow Kum
(1888-1909)
Chinese slave girl whose murder instigated the Tong Wars in New York's Chinatown between 1909 and 1910.
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Bow Kum (1888 – 15 August 1909) was a Chinese-born slave girl who belonged to the Hip Sing Tong and later to the On Leong Tong around the turn of the 20th century. Her murder was one of the most well-publicized and notorious crimes in New York's history and was the cause of the year-long Tong War between the On Leong Tong and its rivals the Hip Sings and the Four Brothers.
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1888 Canton, China
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15 August 1909 (aged 21)
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