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Negro Says Colonists Find They AreCompelled to Work for Nothing.Sam Claborn, an Alabama negro, who was taken in by the police at El Paso, Texas, as a vagrant, told a story in court which, if true, throws a sensational light upon the condition of the negroes taken to Mexico for colonization purposes. Claborn declares that he was taken to Mexico by “Father” Ellis, a negro agent, under the impression that he was going to j join a community in which all the members lived on the co-operative plan and the proceeds of their joint work were devoted to the upbuilding of the colony, j He says he arrived at Mapimi and at once was ordered to work on a cotton plantation, the owner being a white man. There he learned that slavery14, in its worst form existed in the vicinity, andmembers of the so-called co-operative community were human chattels, bought and sold, and compelled to do the hardest kind of labor without remuneration. Claborn says he made preparations, together with about fifty others, to leave ; the place and make their way back to the United States, but over nine years passed before the plan could be carried j out.
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Sheridan Weekly Sun
Sheridan, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1903
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