"MASTER OF CEREMONIES": THE WORLD OF PETER BIGGS IN CIVIL WAR-ERA LOS ANGELES.

This article reconstructs the life and times of Peter Biggs, a free African American man in 1850s and 1860s Los Angeles, revealing the social and economic niche that he fashioned between the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War. Biggs's little-known biography illuminates a forgotten moment in the temp...

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Published in:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 379 - 406
Main Authors: FIELD, KENDRA, LYNCH, DANIEL
Format: Biography
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Nov2016
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