When Portland banned blacks: Oregon’s shameful history as an ‘all-white’ state | The Washington Post

In 1844, all black people were ordered to get out of Oregon Country, the expansive territory under American rule that stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] reside online and are fully searchable Those who refused to leave could be severely whipped, the provisional government law declared, by “not less than […]

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