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Examines the lives of the thousands of free blacks and slaves who migrated to the California gold fields after 1848 and studies their relationships with other minorities and with whites
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Blacks in Gold Rush California
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 4338073-6
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Blacks in Gold Rush California
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Yale Univ Pr, United Kingdom, 1977
ISBN 10: 0300019882
ISBN 13: 9780300019889
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Seller: Winghale Books, South Kelsey, LINCS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 321 pages. Minor mark on one page of a clean hardback in a sun faded dust jacket. Blacks in Gold Rush California. Seller Inventory # 094791
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Blacks In Gold Rush California
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 1977
ISBN 10: 0300019882
ISBN 13: 9780300019889
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First Edition
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No additional printings. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight, boards straight and clean; pencil erasure to top front free end page else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket has minor bumping and chipping with top front flap corner clipped. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Several photographs. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 082715BX7d
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Blacks in Gold Rush California
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Yale University Press, NY, 1977
ISBN 10: 0300019882
ISBN 13: 9780300019889
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Hardcover
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Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's cloth. Inscribed to the ffep by Lapp in the year of publication. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is a bit faded to spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 42274
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Blacks in Gold Rush California
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Yale University Press, Binghamton, NY, 1977
ISBN 10: 0300019882
ISBN 13: 9780300019889
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First Edition
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good -. First edition. 321pp. Octavo [21.4cm]. Yellow cloth covered boards with black lettering on the spine. Front head fore-edge corner bumped. Spine slightly rubbed at head and tail. Price clipped dust jacket. Slightly rubbed at extremities and discolored on the back. In the two years after the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in 1848, one hundred thousand persons made the difficult trek to California in search of quick wealth. One thousand of them were blacks. By 1860 there were five thousand. They formed the largest voluntary migration of American blacks before the Civil War. Yet few whites then or now have been aware of the part that blacks played in America's epic adventure. After years spent in combing through a great variety of disparate source materials, Rudolph M. Lapp has pieced together into a coherent and fascinating narrative this missing chapter of history. Most black Forty-niners went west less to escape a hard lot than to seek their fortune. Some mined alone or together with whites, other formed companies of their own. They included both free blacks and slaves. Lapp examines their life in mining communities and their relationships with other minorities and with whites. He records for the first time in detail the history of the California Colored Convention, examining the ideology and eastern origin of its leadership. The problems of this movement and the exodus of many of its members to Canada is an engrossing tale in its own right. Rudolph M. Lapp is professor of history at the College of San Mateo in California. -- From inside flap. Seller Inventory # 58380