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Archy Lee was the name of the man who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined opponents of human bondage, had just won his freedom from the claims of Charles Stovall. With the aid of pro-slavery lawyers and equally determined supporters, Stovall had sought to capture him and carry him back to a far-away slave plantation.
Yet the book is not solely about Archy Lee. It is also about the travel routes that the gold-seekers followed to California in the 1850s, some by land over the Great Plains, some by sea around Cape Horn, yet others by sailing from the east coast of North America to the isthmus of Panama, where they crossed over the land there by train and continued on by sea to San Francisco. It is about the efforts of the racially motivated lawmakers to suppress the rights of all of Californias residents except whites, and to subject people of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent to second-, third-, or even fourth-class citizenship. It is about the residents of the stateincluding many whiteswho fought back against those efforts, seeking to ameliorate or repeal the discriminatory laws and introduce a measure of fairness and justice into Californias civil life. It is about the lawyers and judges who participated in Archy Lees legal struggles in 1858, some supporting his claims for freedom while others ferociously opposed them and, in the process, elevated their own political and professional profiles.
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The Rest I Will Kill: William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
Lincolns Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America
Lincoln and the Court
The Body of John Merryman: Abraham Lincoln and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
John Browns Trial
Strong Wine: The Life and Legend of Agoston Haraszthy
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
Paderewski at Paso Robles: A Great Pianists Home Away from Home in California
A Toast to Eclipse: Arpad Haraszthy and the Sparkling Wine of Old San Francisco
The Palace Inns: A Connoisseurs Guide to Historic American Hotels
Haraszthy at the Mint (Famous California Trials Series)
We the People: A Special Issue of American History Illustrated Commemorating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the U.S. Constitution
The True Story of California Gold, the Nations Tragic March Toward Civil War, and a Young Black Mans Fight for Liberty
B RIAN M C G INTY
Guilford, Connecticut
An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
4501 Forbes Blvd., Ste. 200
Lanham, MD 20706
www.rowman.com
Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK
Copyright 2020 by Brian McGinty
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
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Names: McGinty, Brian, author.
Title: Archy Lees struggle for freedom : the true story of California
gold, the nations tragic march toward Civil War, and a young black mans
fight for liberty / Brian McGinty.
Other titles: True story of California gold, the nationstragic march
toward Civil War, and a young black mans fight for liberty
Description: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press [2020] | Includes
bibliographical references and index. | Summary: Against the backdrop
of the run-up to the Civil War, a young African American man in San
Francisco in 1858 was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to
return him to slavery in Mississippi. Archy Lee was the name of the man
who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined opponents of
human bondage, won his freedom from the claims of Charles Stovall. With
the aid of pro-slavery lawyers and equally determined supporters,
Stovall had sought to capture him and carry him back to a far-away slave
plantation. This is the story of Archy Lee, and the fight against
slavery in a non-slave state Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019022083 (print) | LCCN 2019981564 (ebook) | ISBN
9781493045341 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781493045358 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lee, ArchyTrials, litigation, etc. | SlaveryLaw and
legislationCaliforniaHistory19th centuryCases. | SlaveryUnited
StatesLegal status of slaves in free states. | Fugitive
slavesCaliforniaBiography.
Classification: LCC KF228.L444 M38 2020 (print) | LCC KF228.L444 (ebook)
| DDC 342.79408/7dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022083
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019981564
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
To the memory of Edward Dickinson Baker, Lincolns dearest personal friend and Archy Lees victorious trial lawyer in San Francisco
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- Copyright
- Dedication
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- Introduction
- Dramatis Personae
- C HAPTER 1: A Slave from Pike County
- C HAPTER 2: The Black Heart of the Gold Country
- C HAPTER 3: I Want It to Come Out Right
- C HAPTER 4: The Archy Case
- C HAPTER 5: A Struggle on the Water
- C HAPTER 6: The Opposing Forces
- C HAPTER 7: Jehovah Has Triumphed
- C HAPTER 8: Send Them to the Devil
- C HAPTER 9: All One Thing, or All the Other
- C HAPTER 10: North to Freedom
- C HAPTER 11: We Feel the Impulse
- C HAPTER 12: The Year Lives On
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
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Archy Lee had reason to be happy in British Columbiaat least at first. In 1858, he was listed in the Victoria Gazette among fifty-four men who had applied for British citizenship. Fifty-three of the applicants were blacks, many from San Francisco. When Colonel Baker visited Victoria in 1860, the fugitives from San Francisco who had not forgotten his courageous defense of Archy in the court of George Pen Johnston gave him a grand reception. In December 1862, however, the Pacific Appeal, a black newspaper published in San Francisco, reported that Archy had come back from Victoria and was working as a barber in Washoe, Nevada Territory. A little over a year and a half later, Archy had apparently returned to the North. In an article titled Notes of a Trip to Victoria, the Appeal told its readers that he was among the notables of Victoria, remembered as the man upon whose fate once hung the destinies of the people of California. In the same article, he was described as a a sober, honest, hard-working man, a respectable citizen of Victoria, and a loyal subject of Her Majesty. But the writer of the Appeals 1864 story added a curious comment, saying: It affords me much pleasure to be able to contradict the reports which have been circulated prejudicial to the character of Archie [sic] Lee; he follows the lucrative occupation of draying, and has accumulated some property, and is much respected by the community. What were the prejudicial reports? The reporter didnt say, leaving it to readers to imagine what they might be. The Appeals article was widely reprinted, even as far away as Boston, where the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison printed it in his newspaper The Liberator
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