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An Emigrant’s Vengeance in 1855 Texas
A German immigrant traveling northwest of Gonzales toward Fredericksburg in 1855 mucks through hardship and hunger. He befriends a slave who sells him meat, and a white landowner named Frank Smith captures and hands him over to punishment for alleged theft. The episode ends with the immigrant restrained and the slave beaten as a public display of authority.
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Texas
Guadalupe River
Gonzales
Indianola
Victoria
Fredericksburg
Germany
Old Country
Darkey
Frank Smith
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