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In 1849, a white man lost a case against a black man who was accused of both being a slave and being in debt to the accuser. At the time, California was not under U.S. rule, and Mexican law, which prohibited slavery, was used in the case. This resulted in the legal precedent of the official non-acknowledgement of slavery in California.
"The little-known story of how slavery infiltrated California and the American west". The Conversation; California Once Tried to Ban Black People; The hidden toll of California’s Black exodus; Wheeler, B.G. (1993). Black California: The History of African-Americans in the Golden State. Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0074-7.
After Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, California followed suit with a state Supreme Court decision in 1852, ruling that Black slaves brought in pre-statehood were primarily property. That ...
As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state without a slave state being admitted; California's admission also meant there would be no slave state on the Pacific coast. To avoid creating a free state majority in the Senate, California agreed to send one pro-slavery and one anti-slavery senator to Congress. [12]
Racial hierarchy continued to take root in California when slavery was abolished federally by the 13th Amendment in 1865. The task force's findings detail the lasting consequences of segregation ...
A new report from California’s first-in-the-country reparations task force details how slavery touched nearly every aspect of Black life in America, producing “innumerable harms” that are ...
Biddy Mason (August 15, 1818 – January 15, 1891) was an African-American nurse and a Californian real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist.She was one of the founders of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church [1] in Los Angeles, California.
By 1900, 2,131 African Americans, the second largest black population in California, lived in Los Angeles. [ 16 ] In 1872, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (First A.M.E. or FAME) was established under the sponsorship of Biddy Mason , an African American nurse and a California real estate entrepreneur and ...