ot all triads were criminals, but a group that one could join to gain protection within individuals who shared a like mind.
The groups' start in America was around 1870 during the construction of the transcontinental railroad. The origin of American triads is believed to have started in San Francisco. Thoughts of Chinese people were negative and while some of them stayed in San Francisco, some of them traveled to New York. In New York a man named Tom Lee was th
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