<span>Iowa emerged as a free state candidate, president signed statehood bill, Florida was twenty seventh state in the us, the balance of slave and free state.</span>
We, the People of the Territory of Florida, by our Delegates in Convention, assembled at the City of St. Joseph, on Monday the 3d day of December, A.D. 1838, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-third year, having and claiming the right of admission into the Union, as one of the United States of America, consistent with the principles of the Federal Constitution, and by virtue of the Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits between the United States of America and the King of Spain, ceding the Provinces of East and West Florida to the United States; in order to secure to ourselves and our posterity the enjoyment of all the rights of life, liberty, and property, and the pursuit of happiness, do mutually agree, each with the other, to form ourselves into a Free and Independent State, by the name of the State of Florida.
The British were imposing great taxes without properly representing the colonists. This led to conflict about whether colonists were entitled to a voice at all. =Revolutionary War
I would say because they had no way to preserve them other than to pass them on to their kids, think about it I am certain most slave owners couldn't have care less about their slaves songs, they had no reason to preserve them.
