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The Little-Known History Of Slavery In California: Lynette Mullen
The Little-Known History of Slavery in California: Lynette Mullen
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The Little-Known History of Slavery in California: Lynette Mullen
Pictorial history of California (1925)
Lynette Mullen gives a presentation over a book by Owen Cochran Coy who explored the roots of slavery in California. Generally, slavery was associated with Negroes until Coy wrote this book. He explored that Blacks were not the only people who were used as slaves by the European colonizers, there were Native Americans too. Humboldt County of California was the most notorious for the enslavement of the Indians. Coy explains a law that was passed in 1850 to protect the natives; it was, in fact, an ironical law. It did not protect rather seriously exploited the Indians. Indian’s enslavement was channelized through this law. For example, every White had the right to sue any Indian or use any imprisoned Indian for his land labor by paying a short amount to the government. On the contrary, no Indian had the right to sue any White according to that law.
Every White man was equipped with Indian slaves who were young boys and girls mostly because the adult slaves were avoided for the fear of their fight-back. It increased the demand of Indian adolescents and thus increased their trafficking. Indian children were hunted from woods or captured from their houses and were sold to the Whites who used them for domestic jobs as well as agriculture. The parents who resisted were killed by the White traffickers. Humboldt Times reported in 1861 that George Woodman was arrested having more than 500 Indian adolescents. Legally, the boys were supposed to stay and work at the houses of the whites until 30 and the girls until 25. They were treated as half-wild animals. Hoopa Reservations were created to channelize those Indians who were not living in anyone’s house. Hoopa Reservations were other places to exploit them. Sylva Huestis was the first lady who renounced slicer and ran from the house of her patron. She was followed by many others and the Indians started speaking against their exploitation when the 20th century started. Owen Coy’s accounts prove that slavery existed in California as it existed in South America.
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