Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool case documents, 1851.

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Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool case documents, 1851.

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Collection comprises copies of documents relating to Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool, a legal case in the Oregon Territory in which an African American business owner was expelled from the territory on the basis of an exclusion law that prevented African Americans from living there.

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University of Oregon Libraries

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University of Oregon Libraries

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Magruder, Theophilus.

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Nelson, Thomas M.

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Vanderpool, Jacob.

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United States. District Court (Oregon)

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Jacob Vanderpool was an African American owner of a saloon, restaurant, and boarding house living in Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon Territory at a time when the Oregon Territoral government enforced an exclusion law it had passed in 1844 preventing blacks from living in Oregon. In 1851, Vanderpool's neighbor brought suit against him, and Judge Thomas Nelson expelled him from the territory. From the description of Theophilus Magruder v. Jacob Vanderpool case documents, 1851. (U...