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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 last known survivors who were born into legalized slavery or enslaved prior to the passage of the amendment are listed below. The list also contains the last known survivors in various states which abolished legal slavery prior to 1865. Some birth dates are difficult to verify due to lack of birth documentation for most enslaved individuals.
Slaveholders in those areas often moved their enslaved to Texas to avoid having them freed. According to the US Census, there were 182,566 enslaved people in Texas in 1860. By the 1870 Census, as a result of births and inter-state migration after the Civil War, there were 253,475 free people of color and no slaves.
Below are 215 known combatants: 193 who died during the siege, 31 survivors, and one escapee who later died of his wounds. Mexican Colonel Juan Almonte, Santa Anna's aide-de-camp, recorded the Texian fatality toll as 250 in his March 6 journal entry. He listed the survivors as five women, one Mexican soldier and one slave.
List of the last surviving American slaves; List of enslaved people of Mount Vernon, George Washington's plantation; List of slave owners; Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom; 1926 Slavery Convention, an international treaty; 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery; Comfort women, sex slaves in WWII; Human trafficking
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Joe Travis (c. 1815 – Unknown) was an enslaved man who was one of the only survivors of the Battle of the Alamo.Joe was sold four times in his life, with his most well known owner being William B. Travis, [1] a 19th century lawyer and soldier, who would later serve as one of the commanding officers at The Battle of the Alamo.
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]