Transnational Women's Activism JUVENILE FICTION / Interactive Adventures Plague Ports tells the story

Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay

el rumor ya había circulado por la ciudad hasta llegar al lugar más remoto del mundo: todos decían que Cocorina no trataba bien a sus hijos

and peers into the box of pencils Vega had on her table

as Kaufmann evokes them

Transnational Women's Activism JUVENILE FICTION / Interactive Adventures Plague Ports tells the storyFollowing landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church women and, later, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traveled to the Asian coast to promote Christian teachings and women's social