 
 <prompt> "Na 1850 or 1860 we get less slaves? Based on di last question, write one context wey contain di answer. E fit be 1 - 20 sentences. Context:" <response>: For August 1836, two real estate entrepreneurs—Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen—from New York, buy 6,642 acres (26.88 km2) of land along Buffalo Bayou with the intention to found one city. The Allen brothers decide to name the city after Sam Houston, the popular general for the Battle of San Jacinto, wey dem elect as President of Texas for September 1836. The majority of slaves for Texas come with their owners from the old slave states. Plenty of them come through the domestic slave trade. New Orleans na the center of this trade for the Deep South, but some slave dealers dey for Houston. Thousands of enslaved African-Americans dey live near the city before the Civil War. Many of them wey dey near the city dey work for sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those wey dey inside the city limits get domestic and artisan jobs. For 1860, forty-nine percent of the city population na slaves. Some slaves, maybe as many as 2,000 between 1835 and 1865, come through the illegal African trade. After the war, Texas grow well well as migrants dey enter the cotton lands of the state. Dem also bring or buy enslaved African Americans, wey their numbers nearly triple for the state from 1850 to 1860, from 58,000 to 182,566. 