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This is a newspaper advertisement for the auction of a 'Negro' slave for $300 by his master B.G. Lathrop. The significance of the source lies in the fact that it is the first sale of a slave in California despite its declaration as a free state in…

The source is a series of typed letters regarding the canoe and boat building industry at Port Arthur, British Columbia.

The subject of the early letters is regarding the employment of an expert to teach the Indians of McIntyre Bay and Gull Bay…

From the east coast of the US the journey to the Californian gold fields was long and arduous whether undertaken by land or a combination of land and sea. ‘The Challenge’, the largest merchant ship at the time, was built in 1851. It was a clipper…