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Here for the first time in a book for young readers is the story of the African American forty-niners who went west to seek fortunes and freedom in the California Gold Rush. Among the thousands drawn west by the California Gold Rush were many African Americans. Some were free men and women in search of opportunity; others were slaves brought from the slave states of the South. Some found freedom and wealth in the gold fields and growing cities of California, but all faced the deeply entrenched prejudices of the era. To tell this story Hurry Freedom! focuses on the life of Mifflin Gibbs, who arrived in San Francisco in 1850 and established a successful boot and shoe business. But Gibbs's story is more than one of business and personal success: With other African American San Franciscans, he led a campaign to obtain equal legal and civil rights for Blacks in California.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 6-8-More than just a look at life in Gold Rush California, Stanley's brief, fascinating account provides a microcosmic look at the early African-American experience that will most likely have a profound effect on readers. Lured by possible riches and most importantly, opportunity, blacks migrated to California. Unfortunately, the arduous journey across the Oregon and Gila Trails did not affect their position in society. Despite an overwhelmingly racist atmosphere, a few African Americans managed to eke out livings and prevail against injustice. Stanley draws upon the personal experiences of two little-known figures, Mifflin Gibbs and Peter Lester, to exemplify the experience. This narrative choice lends the book a biographical feel rendering it highly readable. Both Gibbs and Lester ultimately succeeded through extremely hard work; as prosperous businessmen they used their shop as a station on the Underground Railroad and furtively lobbied to pass bills that would improve black Californians' lives. Good-quality, archival photos fill the pages. Some of them portray blacks and whites working side by side, others exemplify the time and culture discussed throughout the book. As the title suggests, the focus remains on African Americans, yet Stanley does note that Asian Americans and other minority groups also endured mistreatment at this time. A fine addition.-Laura Glaser, Euless Junior High School, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
(Intermediate, Middle School) Like so many settlers during the gold rush years, African Americans emigrated to California seeking wealth and opportunity. Their dreams were frequently shaped by their own unique needs: to find a land that would allow them a chance for both economic and political equality and to earn enough money to buy their own freedom or purchase freedom for family members. Many of their stories parallel Mifflin Wistar Gibbs's, whose life anchors the narrative. Gibbs left his native Philadelphia when he realized that a future there would offer little more than a dead-end existence. After traveling primarily by ship to San Francisco, he became a successful retailer who not only ran a western extension of the Underground Railroad but also fought for basic civil rights such as the abolition of the fugitive slave laws in California and the right of African Americans to testify in court. When Gibbs realized that racism would dominate California politics for some time, he and many others from his immediate community moved to British Columbia, where they were guaranteed legal protection. Gibbs's experiences open a fascinating window on the African-American experience in gold-rush San Francisco. Unfortunately, the account loses its strong focus when Stanley's narrative expands to include those African Americans mining for gold or working in the fields or struggling for basic freedoms in Sacramento. Here, statistics (such as the numbers of African Americans living in various portions of the state or attending various conventions) substitute for the telling details of personal lives so richly employed in the sections on Gibbs and San Francisco. But overall this smoothly written history allows readers to examine a collective experience previously ignored in most historical accounts of this period. Archival photographs make it possible to identify major players in the drama and visualize the historical setting, although a few seem tangentially related to the text. Bibliographic note and index. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.