Bradis McGriff
Iris M Jerke
CAlifornia History
Everyone knew that slavery took place in the southern United States, but to this day few people know that slavery existed in the state of California. As far as African Americans as well as the rest of the country were concerned California was supposed to be a free state under state law because back in 1857 slavery had not been outlawed in the United States. In this piece of literature you will find out about African Americans in the state of California who were slaves, but most importantly you will find out about one man in particular who goes by the name of Archy Lee.
Archy Lee was born in 1840 in Mississippi. For the first seventeen years of his life, Archy and his family lived on his master's plantation in Mississippi. Archy Lee was 17 years old when Charles A. Stovall, his slave master, separated Archy from his mother, his sister and brothers and took him to Sacramento, California in 1857. Charles A. Stovall was hired......
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