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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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Before the gold rush
- Blacks join the gold rush
- In the mines
- In the cities
- Southern California
- Slavery and the fugitive slave in California
- Churches and schools
- The background of the Colored Convention Movement
- The three conventions
- The exodus to Victoria
- The last years of the decade.