Avatars Involved: Missouri and Oregon
History This gives a brief run down of some of Oregon’s Exclusion laws- laws specifically designed to discourage or outright prevent black settlers from moving into the Oregon territory, and later the Oregon state. The white settlers enthusiastically supported them on their State constitution, even as they were also enthusiastic in being a free state. So further proof that anti-slavery did not always mean pro-black.
That said, the law was rarely enforced and in fact, three of the four times it was, the white settlers protected the black settlers and kept them from being forced out.
However, it did have the desired effect of discouraging black settlement in the area as most moving west avoided the territory/state
And yes, as Oregon states at the end, a lot of this was at the hands of those formerly from Missouri, who had disliked competing with African Americans, both free and Slaves, and who wanted to not have the competition in their new place.
Notes: This was not the comic intended for today, but rather a longer sketch one. The main one is still being painted and should be up Thursday, fingers crossed!
