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Stacey L. Smith is an Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University where she specializes in the history of the American West and the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. She is the author of Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).
In this virtual presentation for the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library, Smith will discuss the history of different types of “unfree” labor—slavery, apprenticeship, debt bondage, and sex trafficking—that emerged in Gold Rush California and involved diverse groups of people.
She will highlight the stories of unfree workers in Sonoma County in the 1850s and 1860s.
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