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The Texas Slavery Project is a digital history project created by Andrew J. Torget, currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas.It aims to explore the expansion of slavery between the years 1837 and 1845 in the lands in and around what would eventually become the state of Texas.
"Uncle Dick and Aunt Angie, Davilla, Texas, slaves of Jack's grandparents" (DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University) The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845.
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.
Pages in category "History of slavery in Texas" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (University of California Press, 1997). Glasrud, Bruce A. and Merline Pitre. Black Women in Texas History (2008) Glasrud, Bruce A. et al eds. African Americans in Central Texas History From Slavery to Civil Rights (2019); scholarly essays online
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PragerU video draws backlash for depicting Frederick Douglass in an animation calling slavery a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of the U.S.