Yes they did. Abraham Lincoln banned slavery from slave states that included California.
No, they wanted no part of it
It didn't expand west. The Kansas Nebraska Act made sure that it didn't go further. California came into the union in 1850 a free state. There never was slavery in the western states.
California entered the Union as a free state in 1850.
No
The California Indenture Act of 1850 set forth regulations for slavery. The Act set forth regulations that made slavery legal in certain situations.
State rights
Bridget Biddy Mason was released from slavery in 1856 when she moved to Los Angles, California.
California.
The Compromise of 1850.
No - there was no slavery in the new territories - California or New Mexico or Utah. Texas was a slave state already.
wherw did freed African Americans go after slavery ended