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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 .
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).
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"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.
Here's an idea for lawmakers who fear critical race theory and don't want to be plagued with white guilt: Teach about heroic white abolitionists as well as white enslavers.
A working group of Texas educators wants to omit the word “slavery” from second-grade social studies instruction and instead use The post Education proposal in Texas would replace ‘slavery ...
Freed slaves began to locate to the Dallas area when slavery was abolished. [4] Freedmen's Cemetery was established in 1861. [5] The Hamilton Park neighborhood was one of the first suburbs in Texas built for African Americans in 1953. [6] In the mid-1800s, lynchings of African Americans took place in Dealey Plaza. [7]