"California’s little-known history of slavery will be a click away when California State University, Sacramento’s Underground Railroad Digital Archive project goes online on Tuesday, Feb. 17.

"Launched as part of the University’s celebration of Black History Month, the archive will use high-quality digital images of letters, journals,photographs, documents, newspapers and more to tell the often-overlooked experiences of African-American slaves in California and the new state’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. Beginning Tuesday it can be found at digital.lib.csus.edu/curr .

"The collection brings together materials collected from around the state and includes a bibliography of more than 1,000 documents related to 19th-century African-American history in California and the West Coast. ...."