If one sticks closely to the facts and takes care to ignore the politicized voguish terminology—"Anglo-Americans" instead of Americans and "enslaved persons" for slaves, for example—and the ever-present moral preening, the
linked article provides a good account of slavery in Texas.
* That Stephen Austin looked favorably on slavery and saw it as a means to get Americans, especially southerners, to move to Texas in the 1820s is indisputable. It is also indisputable, however, that the Mexican government knew that slaveholders and slaves would be moving into its almost completely unsettled province of Texas. That government was indeed counting upon the new settlers to deal with another problem: some of the fiercest Indian nations in existence in the area south of the Great Plains.
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* The version of this article in the edition of the
Texas Handbook that I first came in contact with twenty years ago was far more straightforward; that is to say, much less biased in a propagandistic direction.
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