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Show : ' . . 1 Odd Slavery Conditions There is much corroborative testimony testi-mony and numerous references to the tacts that there were at the outbreak (if the Civil war a very large number of free negroes ami that these ne-,.oes ne-,.oes in many cases owned property and slaves. These latter, however, were usually members of their families fami-lies whom they had redeemed and whom they held as slaves lecnnirnllj on account of the laws of miny state which prohibited Ih manumitted slaves from remaining in the state or lerritorv. In many cases the slave- ; holder, while oimself originally a Hve had received his freedom ha- j f0're 'certain laws went into effect which were not retroactive. in 1013 California raised 7..$Xum bushels of potato. |