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In 1851, a black man named Jacob Vanderpool who owned a boarding house and saloon was forced to leave Oregon. He was convicted of violating "exclusion laws" that didn't allow black people to remain in Oregon for more than six months. What probably happened to his property after he left?

by /u/OvidPerl in /r/AskHistorians

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