Examines the lives of the thousands of free blacks and slaves who migrated to the California gold fields after 1848 and studies their relationships with other minorities and with whites

Blacks in Gold Rush California (The Lamar Series in Western History)

History

Lapp, Rudolph M.

Americas

Yale University Press

By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. The part that they played in this epic adventure has been too long ignored. Here for the first time Rudolph Lapp pieces together in a coherent and fascinating narrative this missing chapter of American history.

Afro Americans in California

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Materials for Todays Learning Inc

The historic case of a black man's quest for freedom in 1850s California Part courtroom drama, part adventure story, Rudolph M. Lapp's Archy Lee captures the essence of the celebrated 1858 trial of an alleged fugitive slave in California. When Archy Lee is arrested in Sacramento for refusing to return to Mississippi with his ''master,'' his status in the free state of California becomes the focus of controversy. Lapp tells of the narrow escapes, disappearances, legal maneuvers, and tenacity involved in the black community's fight for civil rights, and the throngs of people--black and white--who took to the streets in celebration of Archy's eventual release.
 When it was first published in 1969, this deeply researched book was a pioneering study in nineteenth-century black western experience. It tells the little-known history of the organized civil rights movement of free blacks in post-gold rush California. Black organizations and their press, legal struggles, and mass mobilizations all come to life in the tale of Archy Lee--a thrilling and ultimately uplifting story of courage and defiance.

Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case

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