[EvilCapitalist]

But California was a Free State.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was slavery there during the Spanish period and earlier years of the Mexican period. And some pro-Native American types consider the Spanish mission treatment of the Indians to be slavery (even if they worked less than half the days in the year, I think). Did the US inherit the guilt for the earlier slavery by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?