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With thoughts of gold rivers in sight, weaker minority groups were subject to anything when excavating gold in the same working conditions, and earning the same amount as the entitled race at the time: the White race. In this era, slavery was still a highly regarded market for labor, there was an ongoing struggle between the North and the South over the survival of the inhumane entity, and many people went westward in search of new life. Though two or three decades had passed before subject to oppression, California was a new frontier for the newly settled