You mentioned 1.8 million slaves doing cotton, and 1.4 million slaves doing something else and now you are talking about 600 Indian slaves plus 12 black slaves in all of New Mexico territory?
You are making my point for me.
So, let’s see, you’re now conceding that there were in fact hundreds of slaves in the New Mexico Territory, and presented nothing to indicate that that number would do anything but increase. Why do you suppose a law protecting slave property was passed by New Mexico in 1859? Surely it couldn’t be because slavery wasn’t expected to diminish and disappear.