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Negroes in Mexico.B 1 *, t'n]. Dun Hallaron,of IlieSoutli-j ern 1‘acilic, who went to Mexico with iIk* negroes who l«-ft a few . I days ul’o, was seen yesterday about. tie* trip, says Edgar Wilson in tin*4 rieavune of the 13th.•’The negroes wen* half scared. ail tin* time.’* lie said, “while we. were on the road, hut when we got . t » tin* end of our trip, and they I were let nut on Mexican soil and found it like old fieorgia »oil. only . better, and they were iu happy as I dead pig* in the sun. Adobe . houses were there for them and the . lir-t two or three days they spent I I in fixing themselves at home.. They went to picking cotton the !irt thing, and this made thorn . laugli. tin* idea of picking cotton in I* February. There was a great deal . of Cotton •till in the fields, and . they get half they pie* out. They j were all in the best of spirits when I left ami the Mexican people were very kind to them. The new home will pi'i)vm the best thing in the •I woilit for the negroes, 1 think.”
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The Kosciusko Star
Kosciusko, Mississippi, US
Fri, Feb 22, 1895
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