Many Chinese men in Maine joined Christian churches where they participated in Sunday Schools, in order to learn English and have an opportunity to socialize.
Wong My was a student in the Chinese Sunday School at South Parish Congregational Church in Augusta. The church opened a Chinese Sunday School in the 1880s.
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