Blacks In Gold Rush California

Author : Sylvia Alden Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595524921

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Mining for Freedom by Sylvia Alden Roberts Pdf

Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."

Author : Rudolph M. Lapp
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300065450

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Blacks in Gold Rush California by Rudolph M. Lapp Pdf

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

Author : Rudolph M. Lapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883824276

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Blacks in Gold Rush California by Rudolph M. Lapp Pdf

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 before the Civil War. Yet few whites then or now have been aware of the part that blacks played in America's epic adventure. Most black Forty-niners went west less to escape a hard lot than to seek their fortune. Some mined alone or together with whites, others formed companies of their own. They included both free blacks and slaves. Lapp examines their life in mining communities and their relationships with other minorities and with whites. He also records for the first time in detail the history of the California Colored Conventions, examining the ideology and eastern origin of its leadership, its problems, and the exodus of many of its members to Canada. Altogether, the author has pieced together a coherent and fascinating narrative of this missing chapter of history. -- from Book Jacket

Author : Jerry Stanley
Publisher : Crown Books For Young Readers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028658115

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Hurry Freedom by Jerry Stanley Pdf

Recounts the history of African Americans in California during the Gold Rush while focusing on the life and work of Mifflin Gibbs.

Author : Rudolph M. Lapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:470309188

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Blacks in Gold Rush California by Rudolph M. Lapp Pdf

Author : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803286171

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Riches for All by Kenneth N. Owens Pdf

An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike. With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.

Author : B. Gordon Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0781800749

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Black California by B. Gordon Wheeler Pdf

"For black Americans seeking to know more about their ancestry, and for all Americans interested in the black contribution to the development of the United States, Black California is an excellent resource. This pioneer work covers a three-century history of the African-American's vital role in the cultural and commercial development of California - from the Spanish speaking blacks who colonized the California frontier, through the Gold Rush and the freeing of the slaves, to the development of black schools and churches and the establishment of black commercial enterprises."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Susan Lee Johnson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393292077

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0382444825

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Blacks in the Gold Rush by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy,Quintard Taylor
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295805313

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Seeking El Dorado by Lawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy,Quintard Taylor Pdf

From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.

Author : Christopher Herbert
Publisher : Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0295744138

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Gold Rush Manliness by Christopher Herbert Pdf

"The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. And yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: the same people popularly remembered as strait-laced, repressed, and order-loving. How do we make sense of this difference? Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that gold rushers worried about the meaning of white manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnically mixed societies that grew up around the mines. Their anxieties about reproducing the white male dominance they were accustomed to played a central role in the construction of colonial regimes. As white gold rushers flocked to the mines, they encountered a wide range of people they considered inferior and potentially dangerous to white dominance, including Indigenous people, Latin Americans, Australians, and Chinese. The way that white miners interacted with these groups reflected the distinct political principles and strategies of the US and British colonial governments, as well as the ideas about race and respectability the newcomers brought with them. In addition to renovating traditional understandings of the Pacific Slope gold rushes, Herbert argues that historians' understanding of white manliness has been too fixated on the Eastern United States and Britain. In the nineteenth century, popular attention largely focused on the West, and it was in the gold fields and the cities they spawned that new ideas of white manliness emerged, prefiguring transformations elsewhere."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Aims McGuinness
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501707339

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Path of Empire by Aims McGuinness Pdf

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States.Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s.

Author : Jonathan Burgess,Michelle Knight,Kimberly Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798985764505

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Gold Rush Burgess Descendents by Jonathan Burgess,Michelle Knight,Kimberly Jones Pdf

This book, my friends, will share victories to uplift your spirit, educate your mind, and expand your knowledge. You see, much of our history was hidden, unknown, and destroyed, by those hoping it would never be discovered. The enslaved were not supposed to know how to read and write, yet they managed to leave an everlasting mark on history. African American history consists of gold mines, owning land, vast creativity, and great strength. I will share original documents such as deeds, maps, vouchers, and the actual locations my grandfather and great-great-grandfather stood in, like the Emmanuel Church. My family history is a part of American history. In fact, American history is a part of world history, and I look forward to revealing valuable facts and timelines about a period of history worth knowing.

Author : Douglas Henry Daniels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520351059

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Pioneer Urbanites by Douglas Henry Daniels Pdf

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transportation boom following the Gold Rush; others traveled as employees of wealthy individuals. Douglas Daniels argues for the importance of going beyond the written record and urban statistics in examining the life of a minority community. He has studied photographs from family albums and interviewed members of old black San Francisco families in his effort to provide the first nuanced picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300056710

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Cowboys of the Americas by Richard W. Slatta Pdf

Lavishly illustrated with photographs, paintings, and movie stills, this Western Heritage Award-winning book explores what life was actually like for the working cowboy in North America. "If you read only one book on cowboys, read this one".--Journal of the Southwest.