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Samuel Cabot submitted a report of the Texan Committee to the New England Emigrant Aid Company Executive Committee. The committee recommended that the Company take action to settle portions of Texas northwest of San Antonio with antislavery advocates as part of the effort to halt the westward advance of slavery. Cabot expressed the committee's view that the only peaceful solution to the slavery issue required demonstrating to slaveholders the superiority of free labor over slave labor; the committee believed West Texas a logical place for this demonstration to occur.
Creator: New England Emigrant Aid Company. Texan Committee
Date: March 8, 1860
Item Number: 2217
Call Number: New England Emig. Aid Co. Coll. #624 Box 2 Fldr 5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 2217
Business and Industry - Services - Real estate
Collections - Manuscript - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Community Life - Community services - Economic development
Community Life - Town development - Town companies - New England Emigrant Aid Company
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Memorandum
Places - Other States - Massachusetts - Boston
Places - Other States - Texas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Memoranda
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/2217