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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 search of quick wealth. This fascinating book tells their story, filling in a missing chapter of American history. “Students of black history will be grateful to Rudolph M. Lapp because his picture of California between the Gold Rush and the outbreak of the Civil War provides us a most useful variation of the general picture of black-white relations outside the South in that period.”—Hugh Brogan, __Times Literary Supplement__ "Thoroughly researched, intelligently organized, and effectively presented."—Kenneth Wiggins Porter, __American Historical Review__ “This study does a great deal to fill a void in a field where so little has been done. It has brought together the author’s many years of study and is both well researched and well written. . . . It should be on the shelf of anyone interested in black history in the United States.”—W. Sherman Savage, __Southern California Quarterly__ "A solid account of black forty-niners who went West to seek their fortune. Much detail is given to their life in mining communities and their relati

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Author

Thorkild Jacobsen

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300019889

Category

nonfiction