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After statehood, in antebellum Texas, slavery grew even more rapidly. Shoutin' the battle cry of freedom.'. "My paw's name was Tom Vaughn and he was from the north, born free man and lived and died free to the end of his days. All we had to do was to walk, but walk South, and we'd be free as soon as we crossed the Rio Grande. "Did you ever stop to think that thinking don't do any good when you do it too late? Run, kitty, run.'. She was a housegirl, but must have been too small to do much work. It makes white men a little insulted when you dont know they is white, and it makes niggers all conceited up when you think maybe they is white.". We was happy. The racial makeup of the city was 52.4% White, 38.4% Hispanic or Latino, 30.6% African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.4% Asian, and 2.1% from two or more races. It was jus' a little stand built out in the open with no top on it, that the slaves stood on to get sold while the white folks auctioned 'em off. This crime was in the middle of the day on the main street in town. "How did we know it! Course, I don' want to go back into slavery, but I's paid for my freedom. used the City Charter to revoke the alcohol license and the PD enforced the local laws of the land pushed by the new Police Chief, a Texas Ranger who took over after the past Police Chief and investigator where removed for corruption after an outside the county investigation of the City of Navasota Police department. "'Union forever, She cry right 'long with me when I cry, 'cause I hurt so. ", "Dey raise dey own t'bacco on de place. Us hab chicken and all kinds of good things. Webhistorical and genealogical records of Texas; part USGenWeb. Three dogs followed one slave the whole way up north and he sold them up there. "She all 'lone in de big house and I think it break her heart. 'Bout 20 year since us come here from Georgia and works de truck farm. PAULINE GRICE, 81, was born a slave of John Blackshier, who owned her mother, about 150 slaves, 50 slave children, and a large plantation near Atlanta, Georgia. Investigators looked into if the Navasota Police Employee falsified government records during the city's hiring process for the dispatcher and police officer positions. Marster asks us to come in and sing dat for de white folks, so we'uns goes in de house and sings dat for de white folks and dey jines in de chorus. Purty soon I see de big ox comin' and see de smoke from de road dust flyin'.