William Marsh Rice
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William Marsh Rice was an American businessman and entrepreneur who made his fortune in Texas. He is best known for leaving his fortune to fund the establishment of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Statue of William Marsh Rice at Rice University, sculpted by John Angel.
Slave patrol
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Slave patrols—also known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers, or paddy rollers—were organized groups of armed men who monitored and disciplined enslaved people in slave states in the U.S. durin
William Marsh Rice
…to his living in Matamoros is not clear. By 1865, he was reported as living back in Houston. While living in Houston, Rice served on the Harris County Slave Patrol. Rice lived in Houston until around 1865, when he moved to New York (but did not own a home there). He built a house on a 160-acre (0.65 km2) estate…
Depiction of Mississippi slave patrol