Yet Ott said he’d only recently been made aware of San Antonio’s role in the slave trade after talking with history students at St. “San Antonio plays this role in collecting enslaved freedom seekers and trying to return them to bondage or auctioning them off,” said Dan Ott, the western district coordinator for the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom of the U.S. SAN ANTONIO – Little do many know that behind what’s considered San Antonio’s old city hall and the nearby historic Spanish Governor’s Palace, freedom seekers, who’d been captured fleeing their enslavers, were being sold to the highest bidder.
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