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Texan Slavery

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
August
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr.. Featherstonhaugh, F. R. S., F. G. S., thus describes the condition of the rSlave in Texas - a land where the people .are fighting toxfreedomJ "The poor slave I aaw here did not appear to me to stand any higher in the scale of annimal existence than the horse; the horse does his daily task, eats his changeless provender, andat night is driven to his stable to be shut in, until he is again drawn forth at the earliest dawn to go through the same unpitied routine untii he dies. This is the history of the j&layein Texas, difFering in nothing from that of the horse, except that instead of maize and straw he is supplied with a litle salt pork to his maize, day after day, xyithout any change, until death relieves Jlim from his wearisöme existence, The pccupation of Texas by the Americans, where there are so many millions of acres of cotton lands, will convert the oíd slaveholding part of the United States into a disgusting nursery for young slaves, bepause the black erop will produce more money to the proprietqrs thany any olher erop they can cultívate."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News