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Robert Smith

A slaveholder who transported Biddy Mason and her daughters to California in 1851, exploiting legal ambiguities to maintain control over them despite the state’s nominal abolition of slavery. His failed attempt to relocate them to Texas led to their historic emancipation.

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Southern California’s perennial sunshine rarely penetrated the ground-floor lockup of the Los Angeles county jail. On the best of days a dank stillness would have encased the adobe chamber and those confined within. And this was the worst of days.

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