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The Oregon black exclusion laws were attempts to prevent black people from settling within the borders of the settlement and eventual U.S. state of Oregon.The first such law took effect in 1844, when the Provisional Government of Oregon voted to exclude black settlers from Oregon's borders.
Oregon Ballot Measure 112, the Remove Slavery as Punishment for Crime from Constitution Amendment, is an amendment to the Constitution of Oregon passed as part of the 2022 Oregon elections. [1] The measure removes the loophole where slavery and involuntary servitude are legal within the state as punishment for a crime. [ 2 ]
Additional laws aimed at African Americans entering Oregon were ratified in 1849 and 1857. The last of these laws was repealed in 1926. The laws, born of anti-slavery and anti-black beliefs, were often justified as a reaction to fears of black people instigating Native American uprisings. [7] The restrictions and laws prohibiting people of ...
Compromise of 1850 (1850) – Series of Congressional legislative measures addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 – Made any federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...
In June 1844, Oregon enacted an exclusion law banning black people from living in Oregon. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] The punishment for violating the law was to be 39 lashes every six months until the occupant left, [ 9 ] but this punishment was deemed too harsh and was replaced with forced labor in December 1844. [ 2 ]
Nevertheless, the Bowman-Hicks Lumber Co. brought in 50 to 60 Black workers from southern and midwestern states who worked there until the company left in 1933. Some, like Trice's family members ...
In late July 1844 Peter Burnett introduced a statute for the "prevention of slavery in Oregon" in the Legislature of the Provisional Government of Oregon. [23] It forbade both black slavery and the residence of any "free negros and mulattos" in Oregon. [24] Any blacks refusing to leave Oregon were to receive a number of lashes and forcible ...