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Texas seceded from the United States in 1861 and joined the Confederate States of America on the eve of the American Civil War. It replaced the pro-Union governor, Sam Houston, in the process. During the war, slavery in Texas was little affected, and prices for enslaved people remained high until the last few months of the war.
This is a list of slave traders operating within the present-day boundaries of Texas before 1865, including the eras of Spanish Texas (before 1821), Mexican Texas (1821–1836), the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), and antebellum U.S. and Confederate Texas (1846–1865). Tom Banks, Richmond and Texas [1] Daniel Berry, Tennessee and Texas [2]
Alonzo, Armando C. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734–1900 (1998) Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995 (1996) online; Barr, Alwyn. Black cowboys of Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2000) online. Barr, Alwyn. "Black Urban Churches on the Southern Frontier, 1865-1900."
The maps contained within the project are, in fact, one decidedly interactive map for the years 1837-1845 which displays slave and slaveholder population statistics of the counties of Texas as well as various layers of data such as U.S. borders, regional rivers, a moveable timeline, and graphs displaying the rate of change in the population data.
Freed slaves began to locate to the Dallas area when slavery was abolished. [3] Freedmen's Cemetery was established in 1861. [4] The Hamilton Park neighborhood was one of the first suburbs in Texas built for African Americans in 1953. [5] In the mid-1800s, lynchings of African Americans took place in Dealey Plaza. [6]
In the final decade before the Civil War, 250,000 were transported. Michael Tadman wrote in Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South (1989) that 60–70% of inter-regional migrations were the result of the sale of slaves. In 1820, a slave child in the Upper South had a 30 percent chance of being sold South by 1860 ...
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment brought 4 million people out of slavery in the defunct Confederate States of America plus the four "border" slave states that did not secede. Many freed people were faced with the questions of where they would go and how they would support themselves to survive.
Texas' annexation as a state that tolerated slavery had caused tension in the United States among slave states and those that did not allow slavery. The tension was partially defused with the Compromise of 1850 , in which Texas ceded some of its territory to the federal government to become non-slave-owning areas but gained El Paso.