Giles Cotton
Giles Cotton, also known as Silas Cotton, (died 1883 or 1884) was an Abolitionism, emancipated slave, farmer, and Texas Legislature, state legislator in Texas. A Radical Republicans, Radical Republican, he served in the Texas House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1870 to 1873. He married and had seven children. Life Cotton, the son of a Female slavery in the United States, slave woman and a White people, white plantation overseer, was born into Slavery in the United States, slavery in South Carolina and was illiterate throughout his life. According to the ''Handbook of Texas'', Cotton's owner was most likely Ethan Stroud at the time of his birth. Cotton's owner changed to by Ethan Shroud's son, Logan Shroud, after Ethan Shroud's death in 1847. While a slave to Logan Shroud, Cotton was permitted to own mules and a wagon, serving as a teamster for Shroud. He was emancipated from slavery following the American Civil War and moved to Calvert, Texas. In 1869 ...
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Circa
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