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Re: Texas Confederate opposed to slavery?

As a matter of history the slaves of Jefferson Davis had to be removed from his plantation by the federals and after the war they all returned.

A wrongly overlooked element to all of this freeing of the slaves by the abolishionist was that the slaves had no voice in the events that shaped their lives. And that the plantations were their homes and the only life that they had ever known. Many of the slaves realized that if they were free and were forced to leave the plantation they would have no place to go, no way to make a living, etc.

Right or wrong it was the lifestyle they knew and had grown up in. That was some of the reason that in the 1860 US Census there was such a low number of slaves reported as runaways in my opinion.

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