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This is a manuscript of California state laws. It outlines the inalienable rights of its citizens, social, political and personal prohibitions, as well as local legislation. Slavery was prohibited unless it was a punishment for a crime, the fugitive…

This is a newspaper article reporting the story of the attempted kidnap, by steamer, of an African-American, Archy Lee, from San Francisco to Mississippi during his judicial case at the Supreme Court. Archy arrived in the state as a slave-for-rent…