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Mining for freedom : Black history meets the California Gold Rush
Author
Title
Mining for freedom : Black history meets the California Gold Rush / Sylvia Alden Roberts.
ISBN
9780595524921
0595524923
Published
Bloomington, IN : iUniverse, ©2008.
Physical Description
xvii, 139 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 12, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135) and index.
Contents
Blacks in early California
California Gold Rush and the "Negro question"
Women of sturdier complexion
Just another "uncle"
Drama in the diggin's
Looking back upon forever
Capitalist of color
Quiet adventure
Lasting legacy
From the crouch of a bootblack
"Too smart to be a slave"
Freedom miner album.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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