1851-1853 TEXAS & SLAVERY. Rare Group of Four Early Texas Government Works Affecting Slaves. Americana Fugutive Slaves

Fugutive Slaves

Wesley’s famous articulation

And he resolved that he would seek an instantaneous cure

Hermann Baar

is inadvisable

1851-1853 TEXAS & SLAVERY. Rare Group of Four Early Texas Government Works Affecting Slaves. Americana Fugutive SlavesA very handsome group of four contiguous volumes issued by the Legislature of perhaps the most important Slave State of the period. Texas' pathway to statehood [1845] was tumultuous and inextricably linked to slavery. If it were to become a Slave State, its addition to the Congress would shift power away from New England Abolitionists, and its sheer size would create a vast demand for new slaves. And it did. The number of slaves at statehood was