Archy Lee's Struggle for Freedom: The True Story of California Gold, the Nation's Tragic March Toward Civil War, and a Young Black Man's Fight for Lib
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In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi. This was one year after the Supreme Court's notorious Dred Scott decision and during the California Gold Rush, which saw the population of the state rise from 7,000 to more than 60,000 in a few short years. Archy Lee was the name of the man who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1493045342
ISBN13:9781493045341
Release Date:December 2019
Publisher:Lyons Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:2.02 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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