Blacks in Gold Rush California / Thorkild Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobsen, Thorkild, Author.

Series:

Yale Western Americana series Blacks in Gold Rush California

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--California.

African Americans.

Slavery--History--California.

Slavery.

Gold mines and mining--California.

Gold mines and mining.

California--Gold discoveries.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 relationships with other minorities and with whites."—The Washington Post

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Before the Gold Rush

2. Blacks Join the Gold Rush

3. In the Mines

4. In the Cities

5. Southern California

6. Slavery and the Fugitive Slave in California

7. Churches and Schools

8. The Background of the Colored Convention Movement

9. The Three Conventions

10. The Exodus to Victoria

11. The Last Years of the Decade

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300162134

0300162138

OCLC:

1024022551