Saturday, November 12, 2022

BEING IN TEXAS WHILE (A FREE) BLACK ON JANUARY 1860

The Matagorda Gazette. (Matagorda, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 25, 1860:

(Ed.'s Note: For all of those who yearn back for the years when the South was the South and get all nostalgic for the era when one could actually live out this great southern "heritage," take a gander at this clipping sent to us by one of our seven readers who came across it while researching for other subjects. 

The clipping notes the arrest and sentencing of a free negro who had come into the state at Galveston against the laws of Texas.

The man, who had passed himself off as a negro minstrel, was sentenced to six months of labor to the highest bidder and, after expenses, was given enough money to leave the state. If he didn't leave within the 30 days dictated by law, the sentence would increase to five years. If you were a free black person, you were not allowed in the state under penalty of law. This was even before the Civil War.

His crime?
Being free.
Aggravating circumstances?
Being free, and black.
Punishment: working for a pittance for a white man. In other words, to make you a slave again. Show you your place.
Deterrence: An example for black slaves who might have harbored the seditious dream of freedom.

Later that year, on December 20, 1860, South Carolina – under the justification that the Union was abridging the sovereign rights of states to treat black human beings as they pleased – declared their secession from the United States of America. Within the next six months, ten other southern states would secede from the Union:
Mississippi - January 9, 1861
Florida - January 10, 1861
Alabama - January 11, 1861
Georgia - January 19, 1861
Louisiana - January 26, 1861
Texas - February 1, 1861
**April 12, 1861, the Civil War begins with the attack of Fort Sumter.**
Virginia - April 17, 1861
Arkansas - May 6, 1861
North Carolina - May 20, 1861
Tennessee - June 8, 1861

Ah, for the good old days, uh? Do you still wonder why current-day progressives want to do away with any vestige of this insidious Texas and southern "heritage"? )

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

This sorrowful situaton still is in the deathly quiet embracement of the
begetters. Their ingrained appetite for malfeasance, exploitation and illicit manipulation of jurisprudence and human morality and decency is overwhelmed by their greed and hunger for money and worldly possessions.
As it was during that time today we see no change in their behaviours.


Anonymous said...

Pinches gringos they STILL think they are gods, they are not, son puros mamones y ratas. If its white and moves don't trust IT!..

Anonymous said...

I reel at the accompanying angst offered by this yellowing clipping and can only surmise that being Black in Texas back then was criminal. Oh, for the presence of God at these racist, bigoted moments.

May God damn all descendants of this sin.


Anonymous said...

Yep thats the democrats!

Anonymous said...

Don't play that harmonica for me, saps. It don't sound right with our conjunto music.

Mayra Flores was a bad note.


Anonymous said...

Today blacks see Hispanics as being beneath them.

Anonymous said...

November 12, 2022 at 4:50 PM
WHAT? pinche pendejo maybe they see your ass as being beneath them. It'll be hell to pay is they think that way....

Anonymous said...

November 12, 2022 at 4:50 PM

Blacks hate whites fact

Anonymous said...

Oreo cookies love whites
Cocos love whites
FACT!

Anonymous said...

Blacks see Hispanics as below them because they are. Hispanics are the most ignorant people in the world. And making it worse, they can't play basketball because they are too short. As for football they can't run with those beer bellies. Maybe soccer? But they would have to go back to Mexico. So what's left? Corruption? Well thanks to the Biden administration Mexicans here in the states can make some easy cash. OPEN BORDERS! Bring in the drugs and lets make money! No wonder the majority of Mexicans vote Democrat.

Anonymous said...

Fat and stupid is common among nfl gringo participants. Don't say players they can't follow rules can't read. Look at baseball players they make millions a year, stupid and fat gringo football players make pennies y pesetas bola de babosos.
Basketball was played by the aztecs and a gringo RATA brought the game over here from Mexico. PENDEJO...
TYPICAL GRINGO RATA THEY STEAL EVERYTHING THEY SEE.

Anonymous said...

BLACKS hate whites
REDS hate whites
YELLOWS hate whites
WHITES hate whites
BROWNS hate whites
HILLBILLYS hate themselves
gringos hate gringos they steal from each other.
SOON the whole universe will hate whites
Eltalon muskies will make sure of that...

A Red American! said...

Isn't it bad enough you democrats kiss that black ass? No wonder they take advantage of the very stupid elected officials!

Anonymous said...

Look at the commercials and movies and see that blacks are over represented in numbers and how many are represented as being smarter and better role models than other racial groups. If you can't see that, then maybe you're not as bright as a black person. In real life, blacks perform velow all other racial groups in intelligence and academic tests. Research it. To white leftists you are just a breakfast taco. Son puros tacoaches. You ARE the idiocracy.

Anonymous said...

November 13, 2022 at 10:33 AM

What !

1. The Americans are short. Look at all the petite people around you.
2. Mexicans are not ignorant: Talk to modern mexicans and they can speak about all issues with facts.
3. Sports: Mexicans dominate all sports but they are not given a chance.
4. Corruption: only Mexicans that do not love Mexico are corrupt. The same as Americans: corruption reigns because some Americans do not love the USA. They love their friends, their families etc they make them millionairs. The same thing happens in Mexico.
5. Drugs: Mexicans do not use drugs... and if they do, they do not survive, nobody helps them. They perish. So they do not use drugs. The Drugs are consumed by other countries.
6. Mexicans can not vote in the USA. It is illegal.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
Today blacks see Hispanics as being beneath them.

November 12, 2022 at 4:50 PM

Blacks do not see Hispanics as being beneath them.

Blacks are in love with Mexican ladies. Mexican ladies love Blacks.

Blacks love Mexican food.
Blacks are handsome, tall and dark.

Mexicans have their own qualities. They are fun, hardworking and suffer quietly. They work all over the USA. Some people can not do that.

Anonymous said...

"They are fun, hardworking and suffer quietly."
What? This is one stupid comment. This comment goes along the lines when I have heard anglos say that " we are the smarter race."

What happens to the "hardworking and suffer quietly" people is that they are abused.

Unfortunately Hispanics are under educated. Few see or acknowledge the value of an education.

rita