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Before the American Civil War, enslaved African-Americans living near Houston worked on sugar and cotton plantations, while most of those living within the city limits held domestic and artisan jobs. Although slavery ended after the U.S. Civil War , by the mid-1870s racial segregation became codified throughout the South, including Texas . [ 4 ]
The city of Houston changed to a commission form of government. In November 1915, a newly passed city ordinance officially abolished the wards. [2] On city maps, the wards continued to be used as geographic reference points until 1928. After 1928 other landmarks such as Memorial Park and River Oaks appeared in place of the wards as reference ...
Although he governed Texas as a slave-holding state and was a slave owner himself, he did not feel that it was in the best interests of Texas to secede from the Union over slavery. Houston and his wife, Margaret Lea Houston , relied on slaves to perform household, agricultural, carpentry, blacksmithing, and other duties for the family.
Houston dismantles the last of its streetcar system. Population: 384,514. [15] September 18, 1942 - Robertson Stadium opens as Houston Public School Stadium. [22] 1945 - The University of Houston separates from HISD and becomes a private university. 1947. Houston voters defeat the first-ever referendum for citywide zoning.
Former U.S. Representative and Governor of South Carolina and future U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond writes Two Letters on Slavery in the United States, Addressed to Thomas Clarkson, Esq., in which he expresses the view that slavery is a "positive good." [105] Anti-slavery advocates denounce Texas Annexation as evil expansion of slave territory.
In 1829 the Guerrero decree conditionally abolished slavery throughout Mexican territories. It was a decision that increased tensions with slave-holders among the Anglo-Americans. After the Texas Revolution ended in 1836, the Constitution of the Republic of Texas made slavery legal. Sam Houston made illegal importation from Mexico a crime in 1836.
For the duration and beyond: World War II and the creation of modern Houston, Texas (Thesis). Rice University (PhD dissertation). hdl:1911/19400; Levengood, Paul A. (April 1998). "In the Absence of Scarcity: The Civil War Prosperity of Houston, Texas". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 101 (4): 401– 426. JSTOR 30239127.
The Fourth Ward was established as one of four wards by the City of Houston in 1839. [1] By 1906 it included much of what is, as of 2008, Downtown and Neartown; at that point the city stopped using the ward system. [2] The area was the site of Freedman's Town, composed of recently freed slaves. [2]