Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Lou Southworth By Finn J.D. John In middle-school history classes, most Oregonians learned that Oregon was a “free” state in the runup to the civil war. The familiar map of slave states and free states was a source of some pride, since everyone today sees the ludicrous injustice of the slavery system. But the map was wrong. The new state of Oregon was, in fact, unique in the country. Black people in Oregon in 1859 were neither slaves nor free; they were simply illegal. Oregon is the only state that was admitted to the union with a racial exc...
McKenzie River Reflections...
McKenzie River Reflections...
