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Before the Civil War, only 25 percent of Texas families owned slaves. Yet most nineteenth-century Texans opposed any interference with the institution of slavery because — |
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Answer» 30%By the time of annexation a decade LATER, there were 30,000; by 1860, the CENSUS FOUND 182,566 slaves -- over 30% of the total population of the state. Most slaves came to Texas with their owners, and the vast MAJORITY lived on large cotton plantations in East Texas. |
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