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Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders
Residential home London, that provided accommodation for non-European sailors / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders (opened 1857) was a residential home in West India Dock Road, in the Limehouse district of London, that provided accommodation for Asian and black sailors (lascars), acted as a "repatriation centre" and was a platform for Christian missionary activity.
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