Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], February 18, 1860
On the 15th inst. eighty one free colored persons sailed from New Orleans for Hayti . They all came from the Opelousas parishes, and are farmers, mechanics and weavers of the stuff called Attakapas cottonade. They take with them the necessary implements for the pursuit of their respective trades. One of the fourteen families included in this emigration is worth fifty thousand dollars, and they all intend investing what property they possess in Hayti .