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to be of no use, they are sent to Louisiana & Mississippi & from thence to the New Orleans Slave Market. It is from the Louisians & Mississippi that most of the Negros now in Texas (the older ones) have come, and must not be looked upon as equal to the Virginia Negros. But the great secret is to know how to manage them.

 When they become cooks & house servants, they give themselves great airs, but the most serious objection against them is the wilful waste of everything they meddle in the way of cooking, without they are very narrowly watch by the guide housewife. Moreover one 'Maids of all work' in Western Texas or in the interior, out of part of the influence of Southern suns would do the work of three Negro women, do it well, & in a cleanly manner - But Texas is bal? & e?ng? country, & it is a matter of astonishment & admiration that there are so many necessaries & comforts.

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