The Negro trail blazers of California (microform) - a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, (14592152780)

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Title: The Negro trail blazers of California (microform) : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ...
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Beasley, Delilah L. (Delilah Leontium), 1871-1934 Bancroft Library
Subjects: African Americans -- California Pioneers -- California California -- History
Publisher: Los Angeles : (Times Mirror printing and binding house)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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CAPTAIN FLOYD H. CRUMBLYPast Department Commander United Spanish War Veterans. 40 THE NEGRO TRAIL BLAZERS
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HON. FREDERICK MADISON ROBERTSFirst Negro elected to the California State Legislature. OF CALIFORNIA 41 The true reason they did not wish either slave or free Negroes in California wasbecause the question of slavery was then prominent before the public against the exten-sion of the slave territory, and it was necessary to have a definite clause in their consti-tution deciding the issue before going before Congress to ask for Statehood for the Terri- .tory of California. If the question was not decided in California the probability ofCongress debating the issue or else ignoring their request, would have delayed theadmission of the Territory into the Union. The settlers were anxious to secure a speedyadmission and prevent the slaveholders from becoming rich in Californias gold through ;the importation of, as one speaker said, these living labor machines. They were justlike the citizen of today living in California, when they see some of the best vineyardsin the State cultivated by a for