#NegroColonyInMexico | "In A Deplorable State," Jeffersonville [IN] News July 9, 1895

In A Deplorable State

Colony of Negroes Sent to Mexico Are Sick and Badly Teated

San Antonio, Tex., July 9.-- Dr. Trollinger, a prominent physician of this city, who was detailed one month ago to visit the negro colony at Tlahuililo in the State of Durango, Mex., and investigate the real situation and condition of the negroes who were removed there from Alabama and Georgia last winter, has returned. He said there were 800 negroes in the colony, walled in and closely guarded. Fully 50 percent are suffering from disease resembling malaria, from which a large number have died. The doctor says the colony company is developing 52,000 acres of agricultural land and working the negroes. As the negroes are citizens of the United States the attention of the department of state at Washington will be called to the condition of affairs at the colony and an official investigation requested.

Jeffersonville News July 9, 1895