"The State of California accepts responsibility for the role we played in promoting, facilitating, and permitting the institution of slavery, as well as its enduring legacy of persistent racial disparities. Building on decades of work, California is now taking another important step forward in recognizing the grave injustices of the past - and making amends for the harms caused," Newsom said in a statement.
California's constitution banned slavery, but the state remained complicit in the slave trade, with more than 2,000 enslaved African people being brought to the state from 1850 to 1860.
Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, who chairs the Black Caucus, said in a statement that she was grateful to Newsom for signing the bills.
The formal apology for slavery was one of a number of California Legislative Black Caucus priority bills the governor signed this week.
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