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Black Agriculture in Gold Rush California
Negro Hill, California, a journey towards a greater measure of freedom (1840-1865) highlights the wealthiest part of the Gold Mining District and the contributions from people of African descent to the Great State of California. In the California Mother Lode, high above the confluence of the North and South Fork of the American River Basin, a “planned” Black Agriculture community was established an nurtured the development of a young Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, yet it remains taboo for official education peer review or a formal cultural resourse study required for establishing a U.S. National Monument for California Pioneers of African ancestry.
Black Agriculture in the Gold Rush California ~ Proposed Negro Hill U.S. National Monument
California is named after Queen Califia who led the battle against Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Conquistadors quest for the riches and bounty of the land and sea, in 1535, Baja California.
During the Age of Sail, prior to the Gold Rush Era, people of African descent lived throughout Alta and Baja California in harmony with many diverse Native Tribal communities from Mt. Shasta to the La Paz.
The broader inclusive story of California is told on an amazing mural in the largest room in the California State Capitol, the historic California Room renamed for the living legacy of John Burton.
Today, our focus is upon the journey (1840-1865) with the wealthiest part of the Gold Mining District. In the California Mother Lode, high above the confluence of the North and South Fork of the American River Bas, a “planned” Black Agriculture community was established.
Documenting and organizing the authenic record may reach the essential criteria elements required to establish a U.S. National Monument erected in honor of the Black Pioneers in Gold Rush California.
In 1845, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr., “the African Founding Father of California” acquired a 35,500 acre land grant along the American River, sadly the authentic records of several years of development of his vast property and his U.S. Government military contracts helped secure California for the United States of America remains outside the scope of official inquiry.
However, Black History Month 2012, the Sacramento Bee has included the first U.S. Diplomat of African descent, as one of the top 25 African Americans in California history. The tip of a vast iceberg authentic California Black History may become widely known, mirroring the polar ice cap melting due to global climate change, unique “California Grown” racial hatred is slowly melting as part of environmental change, facilited by new hate crime law.
In 1849, first California Governor Peter Burnett, in his inaugural speech proposed to export all people of African descent out of the State of California,“they will forever be a scourge upon our society” articulating his values and beliefs of “legal white supremacy.“ Near today's Sacramento Valley Amtrack Station, a few blocks from the California State Capitol, once stood the home of Daniel and Henrietta Blue.
Given the “neighbors” articulated vision and after many basement prayer meetings, the first Black Church west of the Mississippi River was established. Today’s St. Andrews AME Church brought together people of African ancestry seeking a maintain a greater measure of freedom holding fast to the courage, faith and action essential to make change.
The golden legacy of the political, cultural and financial hub of the Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, California 1848 – 1863 surpassed the size and scope of any town in the region, yet our Gold Rush success story of Black Agriculture in the California Gold Rush remains an unspoken taboo in official peer review circles and formal U.S. institutions of higher learning.
How and why the region of Negro Hill was redistricted from Placer County into the boundaries of El Dorado County, Gold County in the Spanish language, is a modern question some elected officials continue to cover up as part of a probable ongoing hate crimes against humanity, time will tell. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the way sharing partial records of the Negro Hill region of California.
What is certain, for over 300 year’s California was part of the Spanish colony, apart of the vast Alta California, that included legal chattel slavery under religious and military authority of the Spainsh authority based in Havana, Cuba. General Vincente Guerrero, asended to the 2nd Presidency of Mexico and ended slavery in the vast Mexican Territory including California. The U.S. - Mexican War reestablished legal and tolerated enslavement of people of African descent in Alta California and the Texas Republic (1846 – 1848.)
“Planned community migration” from “New England States” to the “California Mother Lode” reached a zenith in the community surrounding Negro Hill, CA, that supplied vast amounts of ventue capital essential to finance the Underground Railroad throughout the United States of America and the African diaspora. The Methodist church helped established a footprint of people of African descent throughout the Gold Mining District, mining for freedom and utilizing agriculture to sustain communities.
California Black pioneers created a new generation of Black Abolitionist building upon the foundation of David Walker, Fredrick Douglass and most importantly Mammy Pleasant, “the Mother of Civil Rights in California” who personally travelled back to the deep south organizing the end of chattel slavery in America, 1857 to 1859, before returning to San Francisco, CA. It was Mary Ellen Pleasant and a strong regional network that provided safety for the surviving widow and family of John Brown, Harpers Ferry, South Carolina.
Today, the hidden golden legacy Black Agriculture in Gold Rush California is an open secret best understood by completing an official cultural resource study of the vast community represented by the missing Negro Hill ~ California Historical Landmark and 36 grave markers, Unknown, moved from “Negro Hill” Cemetery, by U.S. Government in 1954.
A new generation of Black Farmers and Agriculturalists will restore our agriculture traditions by embracing the scientific methodology of New Farmers in America, throughout the Central Valley of California, “the greatest garden in the world.”
Michael Harris, Project Director
Negro Hill Burial Ground Project
California is named after Queen Califia who led the battle against Hernan Cortes and the Spanish Conquistadors quest for the riches and bounty of the land and sea, in 1535, Baja California.
During the Age of Sail, prior to the Gold Rush Era, people of African descent lived throughout Alta and Baja California in harmony with many diverse Native Tribal communities from Mt. Shasta to the La Paz.
The broader inclusive story of California is told on an amazing mural in the largest room in the California State Capitol, the historic California Room renamed for the living legacy of John Burton.
Today, our focus is upon the journey (1840-1865) with the wealthiest part of the Gold Mining District. In the California Mother Lode, high above the confluence of the North and South Fork of the American River Bas, a “planned” Black Agriculture community was established.
Documenting and organizing the authenic record may reach the essential criteria elements required to establish a U.S. National Monument erected in honor of the Black Pioneers in Gold Rush California.
In 1845, William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr., “the African Founding Father of California” acquired a 35,500 acre land grant along the American River, sadly the authentic records of several years of development of his vast property and his U.S. Government military contracts helped secure California for the United States of America remains outside the scope of official inquiry.
However, Black History Month 2012, the Sacramento Bee has included the first U.S. Diplomat of African descent, as one of the top 25 African Americans in California history. The tip of a vast iceberg authentic California Black History may become widely known, mirroring the polar ice cap melting due to global climate change, unique “California Grown” racial hatred is slowly melting as part of environmental change, facilited by new hate crime law.
In 1849, first California Governor Peter Burnett, in his inaugural speech proposed to export all people of African descent out of the State of California,“they will forever be a scourge upon our society” articulating his values and beliefs of “legal white supremacy.“ Near today's Sacramento Valley Amtrack Station, a few blocks from the California State Capitol, once stood the home of Daniel and Henrietta Blue.
Given the “neighbors” articulated vision and after many basement prayer meetings, the first Black Church west of the Mississippi River was established. Today’s St. Andrews AME Church brought together people of African ancestry seeking a maintain a greater measure of freedom holding fast to the courage, faith and action essential to make change.
The golden legacy of the political, cultural and financial hub of the Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, California 1848 – 1863 surpassed the size and scope of any town in the region, yet our Gold Rush success story of Black Agriculture in the California Gold Rush remains an unspoken taboo in official peer review circles and formal U.S. institutions of higher learning.
How and why the region of Negro Hill was redistricted from Placer County into the boundaries of El Dorado County, Gold County in the Spanish language, is a modern question some elected officials continue to cover up as part of a probable ongoing hate crimes against humanity, time will tell. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the way sharing partial records of the Negro Hill region of California.
What is certain, for over 300 year’s California was part of the Spanish colony, apart of the vast Alta California, that included legal chattel slavery under religious and military authority of the Spainsh authority based in Havana, Cuba. General Vincente Guerrero, asended to the 2nd Presidency of Mexico and ended slavery in the vast Mexican Territory including California. The U.S. - Mexican War reestablished legal and tolerated enslavement of people of African descent in Alta California and the Texas Republic (1846 – 1848.)
“Planned community migration” from “New England States” to the “California Mother Lode” reached a zenith in the community surrounding Negro Hill, CA, that supplied vast amounts of ventue capital essential to finance the Underground Railroad throughout the United States of America and the African diaspora. The Methodist church helped established a footprint of people of African descent throughout the Gold Mining District, mining for freedom and utilizing agriculture to sustain communities.
California Black pioneers created a new generation of Black Abolitionist building upon the foundation of David Walker, Fredrick Douglass and most importantly Mammy Pleasant, “the Mother of Civil Rights in California” who personally travelled back to the deep south organizing the end of chattel slavery in America, 1857 to 1859, before returning to San Francisco, CA. It was Mary Ellen Pleasant and a strong regional network that provided safety for the surviving widow and family of John Brown, Harpers Ferry, South Carolina.
Today, the hidden golden legacy Black Agriculture in Gold Rush California is an open secret best understood by completing an official cultural resource study of the vast community represented by the missing Negro Hill ~ California Historical Landmark and 36 grave markers, Unknown, moved from “Negro Hill” Cemetery, by U.S. Government in 1954.
A new generation of Black Farmers and Agriculturalists will restore our agriculture traditions by embracing the scientific methodology of New Farmers in America, throughout the Central Valley of California, “the greatest garden in the world.”
Michael Harris, Project Director
Negro Hill Burial Ground Project
For more information:
http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/NegroHillCem...
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sadly the mis-information and limited scope of documentation... is very interesting... like paul harvey would say... an now for the rest of the story...
For more information:
http://carroll.dss.ucdavis.edu/index/1849%...
Our Constitution has wisely prohibited slavery within the State; so that the people of
California are once and for ever free from this great social and political evil. But the
Constitution has made no provision in reference to the settlement of free people of color
within our limits, but has left the Legislature to adopt such legislation upon this delicate
and important subject, as may be deemed most essential to the happiness of our people.
The Constitution excludes this class of persons from the right of suffrage, and from all
offices of honor or profit under the State.
For some years past I have given this subject my most serious and candid attention; and
I most cheerfully lay before you the result of my own reflections. There is, in my
opinion, but one of two consistent courses to take in reference to this class of
population; either to admit them to the full and free enjoyment of all the privileges
guaranteed by the Constitution to others, or exclude them from the State.
If we permit them to settle in our State, under existing circumstances, we consign them, by our own
institutions, and the usages of our own society, to a subordinate and degraded position,
which is in itself but a species of slavery.
They would be placed in a situation where they would have no efficient motives for moral or intellectual improvement, but must remain in our midst, sensible of their degradation, unhappy themselves, enemies to the institutions and the society whose usages have placed them there, and for ever fit
teachers in all the schools of ignorance, vice, and idleness.
Our position upon the Pacific, our commercial and mineral attractions, would bring swarms of this population to our shores. Already we have almost every variety of the human race among us--a heterogeneous mass of human beings, of every language and of every hue.
That period is rapidly approaching, when the natural increase of population in the States east of the Rocky Mountains will render Slave labor of little or no value, and when investments in that species of property will cease to be remunerative.
If measures are not early taken by this State, slaves will be manumitted in the slave States, and contracts made with them to labor as hirelings for a given number of years, and they will be brought to California in great numbers. Our State is now in a position to take an efficient stand upon the subject. A few years' delay will make it almost, if not quite, impossible, to do that which can be so easily accomplished now.
If California will take a decided stand now, and firmly maintain it, a few years' experience will demonstrate the practical utility of the measure. That weak and sickly sympathy — that misplaced mercy, that would hesitate to adopt a salutary measure today, but would suffer all the inevitable consequences of tomorrow, may consider the policy I propose as harsh in its character; but if it is calculated to produce the greatest good to the greatest number, it is the best humanity.
It could be no favor, and no kindness, to permit that class of population to settle in the State under such humiliating conditions, although they might think otherwise; while it would be a most serious injury to us.
We have certainly the right to prevent any class of population from settling in our State, that we
may deem injurious to our society. Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measure to expel them.
They are not now here, except a few in comparison with the numbers that would be here; and the object is to keep them out. I therefore call your most serious attention to this subject, believing it
to be one of the first importance.
California are once and for ever free from this great social and political evil. But the
Constitution has made no provision in reference to the settlement of free people of color
within our limits, but has left the Legislature to adopt such legislation upon this delicate
and important subject, as may be deemed most essential to the happiness of our people.
The Constitution excludes this class of persons from the right of suffrage, and from all
offices of honor or profit under the State.
For some years past I have given this subject my most serious and candid attention; and
I most cheerfully lay before you the result of my own reflections. There is, in my
opinion, but one of two consistent courses to take in reference to this class of
population; either to admit them to the full and free enjoyment of all the privileges
guaranteed by the Constitution to others, or exclude them from the State.
If we permit them to settle in our State, under existing circumstances, we consign them, by our own
institutions, and the usages of our own society, to a subordinate and degraded position,
which is in itself but a species of slavery.
They would be placed in a situation where they would have no efficient motives for moral or intellectual improvement, but must remain in our midst, sensible of their degradation, unhappy themselves, enemies to the institutions and the society whose usages have placed them there, and for ever fit
teachers in all the schools of ignorance, vice, and idleness.
Our position upon the Pacific, our commercial and mineral attractions, would bring swarms of this population to our shores. Already we have almost every variety of the human race among us--a heterogeneous mass of human beings, of every language and of every hue.
That period is rapidly approaching, when the natural increase of population in the States east of the Rocky Mountains will render Slave labor of little or no value, and when investments in that species of property will cease to be remunerative.
If measures are not early taken by this State, slaves will be manumitted in the slave States, and contracts made with them to labor as hirelings for a given number of years, and they will be brought to California in great numbers. Our State is now in a position to take an efficient stand upon the subject. A few years' delay will make it almost, if not quite, impossible, to do that which can be so easily accomplished now.
If California will take a decided stand now, and firmly maintain it, a few years' experience will demonstrate the practical utility of the measure. That weak and sickly sympathy — that misplaced mercy, that would hesitate to adopt a salutary measure today, but would suffer all the inevitable consequences of tomorrow, may consider the policy I propose as harsh in its character; but if it is calculated to produce the greatest good to the greatest number, it is the best humanity.
It could be no favor, and no kindness, to permit that class of population to settle in the State under such humiliating conditions, although they might think otherwise; while it would be a most serious injury to us.
We have certainly the right to prevent any class of population from settling in our State, that we
may deem injurious to our society. Had they been born here, and had acquired rights in consequence, I should not recommend any measure to expel them.
They are not now here, except a few in comparison with the numbers that would be here; and the object is to keep them out. I therefore call your most serious attention to this subject, believing it
to be one of the first importance.
You asked: Why would a post missing the salient conversation be posted?
I ask: Why would a post containing the salient conversation be deleted?
What I posted was the text to Gov. Burnett’s inaugural address from December 1849. This is the text you’ve been referring to, by that name, these past several years, and as you’ve done in your original post here (“In 1849, first California Governor Peter Burnett, in his inaugural speech....”).
The text you provided above, in your response to my (deleted) comment, however, is an excerpt from Burnett’s annual message from December 1849. This is not to be confused with his inaugural message, which makes absolutely no mention of any exportation plans or any eternal scourges on any society. Now that I've read it, neither does his annual message.
I ask: Why would a post containing the salient conversation be deleted?
What I posted was the text to Gov. Burnett’s inaugural address from December 1849. This is the text you’ve been referring to, by that name, these past several years, and as you’ve done in your original post here (“In 1849, first California Governor Peter Burnett, in his inaugural speech....”).
The text you provided above, in your response to my (deleted) comment, however, is an excerpt from Burnett’s annual message from December 1849. This is not to be confused with his inaugural message, which makes absolutely no mention of any exportation plans or any eternal scourges on any society. Now that I've read it, neither does his annual message.
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