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Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case | 
 enlarge | Author: Rudolph M. Lapp With A Foreword By Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Publisher: Heyday Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1940435
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1597140805
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.362079461
EAN: 9781597140805
ASIN: 1597140805
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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The historic case of a black man s quest for freedom in 1850s California When most Americans think of the civil rights movement, they immediately think of the 1960s. Few realize that one of the first civil rights groups was organized in San Francisco more than a hundred years earlier, in 1852. Archy Lee, the story of a fugitive slave s courageous quest for freedom in the courts of California, brings to light the struggle for equality of civil rights activists during the time of westward expansion. When Charles Stovall of Mississippi brought his slave, Archy Lee, into the free state of California, Charles Parker, an African American who ran a rooming house in Sacramento, had a writ of habeas corpus drawn up to free Archy Lee on the grounds that slavery was illegal in California. At a time when a black man s testimony was considered inadmissible in a court of law, the landmark trial of Archy Lee became crucial in the fight against slavery and the pursuit of equal rights. With attention to detail and a passion for the subject, Lapp brings Archy Lee s case to the foreground, revealing this little-known drama in the civil rights activities of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Tells the tale of the historic 1858 case of a runaway slave in California who refused to return to California with his master October 9, 2008
To fight for the ownership of oneself - something fortunately people of this generation will never have to do. "Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case" tells the tale of the historic 1858 case of a runaway slave in California who refused to return to California with his master. A massive legal battle ensued, and it's a vivid picture of a divided country of the time. The tale also doubles as inspiring of one person's fight for what's right, making "Archy Lee" a must for history readers everywhere.
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