Archy Lee's struggle for freedom : the true story of California gold, the nation's tragic march toward Civil War, and a young black man's fight for liberty / Brian McGinty

Author: McGinty, Brian
Additional Titles: True story of California gold, the nation'stragic march toward Civil War, and a young black man's fight for liberty
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2020]
Physical Description: xix, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

A slave from Pike County -- The black heart of the Gold Country -- "I want it to come out right" -- "The Archy Case" -- A struggle on the water -- The opposing forces -- "Jehovah has triumphed" -- "Send them to the Devil" -- "All one thing, or all the other" -- North to freedom -- "We feel the impulse" -- The year lives on.

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"--

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9781493045341 (hardcover)
1493045342

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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