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Letter from Thomas F. McKinney in Velasco, Texas, regarding supplies needed for the business, and special ordered for Jared and Leonard Groce and W.H. Wharton.

E.H. Cushing, editor for Houston's Weekly Telegraph newspaper, urges readers to send enslaved laborers to Galveston to assist in building fortifications.

A report from the Convention of 1833 stating an official denunciation of the African slave trade.

Two advertisements in a May 14, 1850 issue of The Semi-Weekly Journal for then-upcoming auctions of enslaved people on the Strand.

Anglo settlers had been bring enslaved people with them as they came to settle in Stephen F. Austin's colony, but Mexico was opposed to the institution.