Show GOING INTO SLAVERY under this heading the austin texas gazette has the following paragraph IV we e learn that all the free of mr james barnes of grimes county some ten in number have resolved to go into slavery and have petitioned petitioned the district court to be permitted mitter to choose certain citizens as their masters we believe that these slaves were brought from georgia to texas under a contract and having been free in georgia the courts decided tiem trem them free here they preferred however to go into slavery rather than leave the state which it would bave have been necessary to do had they remained free |