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On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:46:19 -0800, Siri Cruise says...
AlleyCat wrote:
Someone needs a widdle luv.
Go love yourself.
Better yet...
https://i.imgur.com/XgWXuus.mp4
After reading this, I KNOW you'll need a hug.
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Holier-than-thou LIBERAL Californians, think they're soooo superior when it comes to slavery.
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Enslavement of African Americans
During this time, the 30-state nation was divided equally between 15 free states and 15 slave states. With the addition of vast new, agriculturally-rich territories, including California, the debate over slavery intensified dramatically. California itself was divided over the issue, as a large number of slave-owning Southerners had traveled to California to seek their fortunes in the 1849 Gold Rush, and many brought their slaves. Many miners expressed concern that slaveholders accompanied by slaves had an unfair advantage in the mining camps and that slavery's inherent inequality violated "the independent entrepreneurial spirit of the mines". However, taking slaves into California, which had no laws or enforcement mechanisms for maintaining the institution, turned out to be quite risky for the slave owners themselves. The territory had no slave patrols, nor local police interested in maintaining slavery, so slave escapes were quite common.
In October 1849, the first California Constitution Convention was held. One of the most heated debates of the convention was on the status of slavery in the new state. While some Southerners who had come to California were staunchly in favor of giving official sanction to slavery in California, Northern abolitionists and White-American miners (who did not want competition from the slave-holders in the gold fields) were well represented within the ranks of the convention. The chairman of the convention, William Gwin, was himself a slaveholder from Tennessee. Gwin, however, was much more interested in gaining control of the California Democratic Party than he was in favoring either side of the debate. To the later chagrin of his fellow Southern members of Congress, he did not write the institution of slavery into the 1849 Constitution. The Compromise of 1850 later permitted California to be admitted to the Union as a free state. Gwin and war hero/abolitionist John C. Frémont became California's first Senators.
Although California entered the Union as a free state, the framers of the state constitution wrote into law the systematic denial of suffrage and other civil rights to non-white citizens. SOME AUTHORITIES WENT SO FAR AS TO ATTEMPT TO DENY ENTRY OF ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS, free and slave, to California.
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History Of Slavery In California - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_California
The history of slavery in California began with the enslavement of Indigenous Californians under Spanish colonial rule. The arrival of the Spanish colonists introduced chattel slavery and involuntary servitude to the area.
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Yes, Slavery Existed In California, Historian Says
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/05/slavery-existed-in-california-too- historian-tells-redlands-audience/
May 5, 2023 - Yes, slavery existed in California, historian says Kevin Waite speaks Tuesday at Redlands' A.K. Smiley Library about his research into slavery in the West during the 1850s. Despite being a...
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The Little-Known Story Of How Slavery Infiltrated California And The ...
https://theconversation.com/the-little-known-story-of-how-slavery-infiltrated- california-and-the-american-west-165705
California, as Givens realised, was a free state in name only. I'm a scholar of slavery in the American far west. My new book, West of Slavery, explains how southerners, including Givens,...
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Q&A: California's Uninterrupted History Of Slavery
https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/06/21/q-a-californias-uninterrupted- history-of-slavery
"California, a Slave State," details 250 years of slavery and slave revolts in California. KPBS reporter Katie Hyson spoke with the book's author, Jean Pfaelzer, a public historian and...
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Uncovering California's Overlooked Slave Past - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4251957
Californians like to think of their state as a freewheeling, tolerant place, one that entered the Union back in 1850 unbesmirched by the stain of slavery. But Joe Moore says there's just one...
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Slavery In A Free State: The Case Of California - JSTOR Daily
https://daily.jstor.org/slavery-in-a-free-state-the-case-of-california/
February 25, 2021 3 minutes The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. California entered the Union as a free state, part of the complicated political jiggering of the Compromise of 1850. But this didn't mean slavery was absent from California, nor that it disappeared upon statehood.
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California Celebrates Its History As A 'Free State.' But There Was ...
https://www.kqed.org/news/11905371/california-celebrates-its-history-as-a-free- state-but-there-was-slavery-here
California entered the union in 1850 as a "free state." The state constitution says: "Neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, unless for the punishment of crimes, shall ever be tolerated in this State." But what's on paper is not the reality of what happened here. Sponsored
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California Is Finally Confronting Its History Of Slavery. Here's How.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/24/california-is-finally- confronting-its-history-slavery-heres-how/
May 24, 2021 - California is finally confronting its history of slavery. Here's how. - The Washington Post Advertisement This article was published more than 2 years ago Made by History About Made by History...
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California Reparations: How Do You Prove Ancestry To Enslaved People? - BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60960524
BBC News, Washington This year, California's government approved a plan to pay reparations to residents of the state who can show that they are descendants of those formerly enslaved. Seeking the...
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