Hemiumrat: Sam Houston hated slavery? Emancipated them 8 years before?
From SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY's own web site:
"Houston owned 12 slaves. Texas legend says that he freed them before he was legally required to do so. This position is backed by the recollection of one of the slaves who said that Sam read the Emancipation Proclamation to them from the steps of the house in which the Houstons lived at the time and told them they were free.
Written records seem to contradict the legend, with an inventory of Houston's property after his death listing 12 slaves valued at $10,530.20."
I await your written apology.
That was FEDERAL agents, not the overlord of Abbottistan.