Sohee Han: 19th Century Worse for African Americans or Chinese?

Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 was the first immigration law that prevents a single ethnic group. Do you think it was fair? What about treatment of slaves or black people in the South in early 1800s? Today, some argue that black people were treated as not human beings. Which ethnic group was worse position and why? For me, personally, I think black people were treated worse than Chinese people. They both had unfair treatment but black people were in worse position in fact they had no choice but forced to work. They not only had freedom of going back home, but had no choice than work under bad conditions such as low wages, inadequate shelter, and so on. For Chinese, perhaps Chinese Exclusion Act prevented them to enter the United States, they still had their country, the place where they could live.