Blacks in Gold Rush California /
In the two years after the discovery of gold as Sutter's Mill in 1848, one hundred thousand persons made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. One thousand of them were blacks. By 1860 there were five thousand. They formed the largest voluntary migration of American blacks...
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Language notes: | English. |
Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [1977] |
Series: | Yale Western Americana series ;
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