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The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the Un

 
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Source: Original data: Beasley, Delilah L.. The Negro trail blazers of California : 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 : it is a true record of facts, as they pertain to the history of the pioneer and present day Negroes of California. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
 
Notes:   Reprint. Originally published: Los Angeles, Calif. : [s.n.], 1919.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [13-14]).
 
Subjects:   Afro-Americans -- California.
California -- History.
California
 
Location:   California -- History.
 
Table of Contents
 
Front matter
Title page
Foreword
Dedication
Preface
Authorities consulted
Contents
Part I. Chapter I. Discovery of the name of California
Part I. Chapter II. Beginning of the discovery of California, with Friar Marco, and the negro guide, Estevancio, together with Coronado and the negro priest, and the final discovery by Cortez, the ex-Viceroy of Mexico, in
Part I. Chapter III. End of the Spanish rule in California
Part I. Chapter IV. Bear Flag Party
Part I. Chapter V. Landing of Comodore John D. Sloate--Constitutional Convention
Part I. Chapter VI. Admission of California into the Union
Part I. Chapter VII. Pony Express
Part I. Chapter VIII. Right of Testimony--Gordon Case--A tragedy with the colored man
Part I. Chapter IX. Slavery in California. The beginning of slavery
Part II. Chapter X. First colored settlers of California
Part II. Chapter XI. Negro miners of 1849, and home for aged and infirm colored people at Beulah, Cal. Negro miners
Part II. Chapter XII. Biographical sketches of distinguised negro pioneers
Part III. Chapter XIII. Just California
Part III. Chapter XIV. Something of the colored churches
Part III. Chapter XV. Education
Part III. Chapter XVI. Department of law
Chapter XVII. A song of old dreams in the musical life of the pioneer and present day trail blazers
Part III. Chapter XVIII. Distinguished women
Part III. Chapter XIX. Doctors and dentists of the race in California
Part III. Chapter XX. Literary department
Part III. Chapter XXI. The negro soldier
Part III. Chapter XXII. History of the negro at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, Cal.
Part III. Chapter XXIII. The end of the trail
Part III. Chapter XXIV. Notes on the text

   
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