“…Texas as we know it exists only because of slave labor. Southerners—and most Texians that came from the South—wouldn’t immigrate to Texas without it.
Thousands didn’t, in fact, worried that the Mexican government’s ingrained opposition to slavery put their “property” at risk. For Mexicans, newly freed from Spanish oppression, abolishing slavery was a moral issue.”
- Forget the Alamo
#houston #texas #history #histodons #texashistory #blackhistory
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