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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]
The Texas slave insurrection panic of 1860, also known as the Texas Troubles, was a moral panic or mass hysteria and a resulting massacre in North and East Texas.Vigilantes killed an estimated 30 to 100 people who they claimed were planning a conspiracy of coordinated arson and slave rebellion.
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.
A former slave displays a horn formerly used to call slaves on the outskirts of Marshall in 1939. By 1860 the city was the fifth largest city in Texas, the "first metropolis of East Texas with a population of about 2,000", according to Randolph B. Campbell author of Gone to Texas, and the seat of the richest county
Glasrud, Bruce A. et al eds. African Americans in Central Texas History From Slavery to Civil Rights (2019); scholarly essays online; Glasrud, Bruce A. and James Smallwood, ed. The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology (2007) essays online; Glasrud, Bruce (March 2014). "Anti-Black Violence in 20th Century East Texas" (PDF).
Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to the state's education board. A group of nine ...
American settlers in Texas began to discuss revolt. The governor of Coahuila y Tejas, Jose Maria Viesca, wrote to the president to explain the importance of slavery to the east Texas economy, and the importance of the Texas economy to the development of the state. Texas was temporarily exempted from the slavery prohibition rule. [21]