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Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Mauzey Celebrate Golden Anniversary. - - (excerpted from longer article) - - In these years, and in the few previous to these, if a Kansan favored slavery it was best that he move into Missouri, or into another Pro-Slavery state; in like manner, if a Missourian looked upon slavery with disfavor, it was to his good that he move into an anti-slavery state.
It was for this reason that Amos Isaacs (father of Mrs. Addie Mauzey nee' Isaacs) moved his family from Kansas into Missouri, and that Layfayette Mauzey, father of Oscar Mauzey, moved his wife and children from Missouri into Kansas, a free state.
Oscar Mauzey was raised in the midst of slavery. His father lived on a farm, or plantation, in New Market, Platte County. Missouri. The boy, until he was 5 years of age, was surrounded with dreadful sights. He saw Negroes whipped and driven to the direst work.
On one especially cold morning a group of slaves were told to break hemp. The colored men, large and brawny, took the hemp and struck it across rocks. One man left his work several times to warm his hands by the fire. His master forbade him to leave his duties again, and to emphasize his authority, tied the worker to a post. At noon, when the dinner bell sounded, this one Negro was the only one who failed to respond. The master went to him and found his charge frozen to death.
Good slave blacksmiths sold on the auction block for as high as $2,500, while small, undernourished fellows brought a $500 price.Date(s) of Creation
2/28/1934
