Immigrants were coming to Texas because Texas was giving away large amounts of land to settlers.
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Two things slave went through are
1. Slaves had to deal with suffering and pain of being taken away from their families.
2. If they tried to escape they would be beaten, killed, or have a limb amputated. Hope my answer helped!
I think the 1st and 2nd one