Slavery in Sacramento, part 1: the Perkins/Jones Case

In the fifth installment of the Center for Sacramento History’s film series “Unlocking the Past: A History of Racism and Prejudice in Sacramento,” we present part one of a three-part subseries on the history of African American enslavement in the Sacramento Region. This film focuses on a court case that took place in 1852 regarding three former slaves who had been freed and left in California only to have their former owner return and reclaim them as fugitive slaves.
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Part 2, the Archy Lee Case: • Slavery in Sacramento,...
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PRODUCED BY:
Marcia Eymann, City Historian
Kim Hayden, Senior Archivist
Narration - Jack Hastings
Producer/Editor - Chad E. Williams
Research/co-writer - Dale Kasler
Production assistance - Staci Cox, Sabrina Holecko, Nicholas Piontek
IMAGES:
Sacramento Bee Collection at the Center for Sacramento History
Sacramento Union
Library of Congress - Getty Images
California State Library
THANK YOU:
Stacey Smith - Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University
Clarence Caesar - Independent Historian
Lorena Márquez, Acting Chair/Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UC Davis
Milmon Harrison, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, UC Davis
City of Sacramento
Sacramento Bee
Dorothy Womack Foundation for the Arts