California once had a law that declared "no black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be permitted to give evidence" against a white person, but excluded Chinese Americans because they were said to fall outside the term "black person."

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The law did not specifically exclude Chinese Americans because they were said to fall outside the term "black person." The law, as enacted in California in the 1850s, broadly restricted non-white individuals, including Native Americans, African Americans, and Asians, from testifying against white individuals in court. The exclusion was based on race, not specific categorizations within non-white races.

California Once Had a Law That Declared "No Black or Mulatto