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    1. Important thread from @jelani9. Worth noting too that many slavers in Texas had fled there with enslaved people during the Civil War from other states to prevent their emancipation. By some estimates, as many as 150,000 enslaved people were forced to Texas during the war. @jelani9/1141314811848011778
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    One of them was Allen Manning, who was later interviewed by the WPA during the 1930s. Manning drew a direct line between the continued oppression of African Americans then and his experience during the Civil War. accessgenealogy.com/black-genealogy/slave-narrative-of-allen-v-manning.htm
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      “It seem like the white people can’t git over us being free, and they do everything to hold us down all the time,” Manning said, before pointing back to refugee slaveholders as prescient evidence of how determined white southerners would be to resist emancipation.
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        If anyone wanted to understand why “Texas Negroes been kept down so much,” Manning said, they should imagine sitting as he had near the Texas border during the War, “and see all that long line of covered wagons, miles and miles of them, crossing that river and going west..."
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