Lauren Boebert reparations remarks trashed by historians
The tweet was widely shared by social media users, accumulating more than 4,000 retweets and being viewed 2.2 million times.However, according to historians, some slaves were held in California, despite the region being admitted to the union in 1850 as a free state.about Boebert's statement, Kevin Waite, an associate professor of U.S. history at Durham University in the U.K., accused the House Republican of"making false claims and mangling American history.
He said:"The simple fact is, California did indeed have enslaved Black people—hundreds of them, at the very least. Most of them were hauled into the state during the Gold Rush years and forced to work in small-scale mining operations. "California had technically outlawed human bondage, but state lawmakers turned a blind eye to various forms of slavery all around them. In addition to enslaved Black people, about 20,000 Native Americans labored in bondage in 19th century California."
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