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California was a free state that did not allow trafficking in slaves but White southerners from Texas, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas brought black slaves into the California mines as early as the summer of 1849.

Yes, mostly Asian workers and Native American.

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California was admitted to the Union as free state.

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No. California was to enter the Union as a free state, as one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850.

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