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Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina
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Over 100 slaves from Lewis, Clark, and Scotland counties in North Missouri were sold and transported south by boat last week, amid high demand and better labor conditions there, leading to predictions of slavery's decline in Missouri.
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The Hannibal (Mo.) Gazette says: "During last week over one hundred slaves, from Lewis, Clark and Scotland counties, have passed down on boats, en route for the south, to be sold. Several large dealers are traveling through all the counties of North Missouri, buying up the slaves rapidly, at high prices, to be sold again in the South, where there is a demand for them, and where negro labor is much more remunerative than in this climate. At the present rate of decrease it will not be long before slavery, only to a small extent, will become extinct in Missouri".
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Missouri
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During Last Week
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over one hundred slaves sold and transported south; prediction of slavery becoming extinct in missouri soon
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Over one hundred slaves from Lewis, Clark, and Scotland counties passed down on boats en route for the south to be sold. Large dealers are buying up slaves rapidly in North Missouri at high prices due to demand in the South where negro labor is more remunerative.