African Americans in the California Gold Rush
African Americans in the Gold Rush - PBS
White southerners brought black slaves into the California mines as early as the summer of 1849. Slave owners and slaves came primarily from western U.S. states ...
Gold Rush: African Americans in the Gold Fields
Over 2,000 African Americans came to California during the gold rush. The majority were free men and women looking for a better life.
African Americans and the Gold Rush | Inside Adams
The California Gold Rush presented business opportunities for whites, Blacks, Latin Americans, and Chinese alike. In 1849, slave owner Charles ...
African Americans in the California Gold Rush (1848-1860) •
After Marshall's discovery, thousands of people came to the goldfields in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California.
The Black 49ers | Libertarianism.org
Black prospector Edmington Bynum arrived in California in 1850 after making the trek from Mississippi with his slave master. While working for ...
blackhistory: On January 24, 1848, the California Gold Rush began ...
A handful of African Americans struck it rich in the gold fields and mines, while others established successful businesses such as hotels, ...
Gold Rush - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California
In 1849, Charles Perkins, a white Mississippian, set out for California to mine gold with an enslaved man named Carter Perkins. They were soon joined by two ...
Key Points in Black History and the Gold Rush
The African-American miners mine the claim for nearly a year before moving on to nearby claims further north. The newer claims at Negro Hill and ...
Black Migration in Relation to Gold Rush - Equality Before the Law
In the latter part of 1848, free Black communities in New England and the mid-Atlantic area found themselves surrounded by news of gold in California. To ...
Blacks in Gold Rush California on JSTOR
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 se.
Blacks in Gold Rush California - 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 ...
African American Rights During the Gold Rush Era
The Negro population of Gold Rush California was not large. They comprised roughly 1 percent of the population. The significance of their story is not in their ...
African Americans: Gold Rush Era to 1900 - Calisphere
The Gold Rush Era marked the real beginning of African American migration into California. About 200 to 300 slaves came to work the gold fields, followed by ...
The Black Families Seeking Reparations in California's Gold Country
Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush's rich, and largely ignored, Black history.
Black Victorians and the California Gold Rush | Mossback's Northwest
The discovery of gold in California in 1848 set off a rush of Americans, including many Black Americans, to the Golden State to seek their ...
Black families fight for California Gold Country land taken from their ...
Gold was found near Coloma in 1848 by James W. Marshall, a white carpenter, setting off the California gold rush that saw hundreds of thousands ...
The lure of the Gold Rush attracted African Americans to California. Some came to seek their fortune; others were brought as cheap labor by whites.
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California
The story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and freedom in the California Gold Rush.
A photograph of African American and white gold prospectors ...
At the outset of the Gold Rush, California's African American community was small and, while African Americans did not constitute a large percentage of Gold ...
Home - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California
African Americans toiled as slaves in the mines during the Gold Rush and beyond even though the state constitution banned slavery. ... To understand the quest for ...