It made it illegal for any manumitted Black to remain physically in the state, let alone aspire to citizenship. The only thing Texas did well as an independent republic was to draft the constitution of 1841. The public infrastructure to secure plantation slavery was financed after 1845 with federal dollars (a lesson to keep in mind in the wake of Harvey). Galveston did not become a deep-water port and cotton moved on rafts to neighboring New Orleans. Steamboats could not ply the waters of the Sabine, Natchez, Trinity, and Brazos that went undragged. It accomplished little, except avoiding Comanche raids. Until 1845, Texas was a pariah state, shunned by the British, the French and the USA. In a serendipitous last moment decision, Houston turned around to confront the weakened Santa Ana. Santa Ana split his cavalry to cut off Houston at the Sabine. Anglo settlers fled to Louisiana, including the retreating armies of Sam Houston. In 1835, Mexico passed a centralizing constitution abolishing slavery in every state in the Union, including Coahuila, and sent an army led by Santa Ana to dismantle the Texas Cotton Kingdom.
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Besieged and brutalized by Comanche raids, Tejanos became Austin’s lobbyists in Coahuila, a federal province deeply skeptical of plantation slavery.įor a full decade (1825-1835), leading Afro-Mexican generals and politicians in Mexico City witnessed with growing concern the expansion of racialized plantation slavery in Texas. Industrial racialized slavery, however, arrived in Texas with entrepreneurs like the Austins who persuaded the impoverished Tejanos in San Antonio to become their lobbyists in Saltillo to delay the implementation of state legislation outlawing chattel slavery. To Tejanos, the Apache and Comanche were both cousins and captives. Texas was a region long used to indigenous slavery. In Mexico, on the other hand, the Wars of Independence (1808-1824) led to the almost complete eradication of slavery in the zones where it most mattered, the Mexican Bajio, the economic engine of the late Spanish viceroyalty. American Freedom led to one of the largest hemispheric spikes of Black captivity as British industrial demand for cotton led to an upsurge of racialized plantation slavery in the US South. Slavery separated the Republic of Mexico from the United States. In fact, The Alamo is all about emancipation and slavery. What about The Alamo?Īccording to myth, The Alamo honors the resilience and courage of Anglos and Tejanos pitted against Mexican centralism, brutality, and corruption.
They were deliberately erected to memorialize Jim Crow and thus intimidate blacks.
One could argue, however, that the statutes of Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis did not just seek to honor slaveholders. Many have argued that the removal of Confederate monuments will soon lead to the destruction of statues honoring Jefferson, Washington, and Andrew Jackson.
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