[Read now] Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Real Texas History|By Laura Anderson|As an adult transplant to Texas, I have never understood the mythical quality of the state history native Texans are taught. Stephen Austin and Sam Houston are giants among mortal men, slave owners were benevolent men who cared for their "workers" who would otherwise be without a home and employment, the Alamo is a pivotal moment in a fight||Written in a clear, engaging style, and supported by prodigious research in both Mexican and U.S. archives, Seeds of Empire offers a complete reconfiguration of this period of Texas history. It will undoubtedly serve as the standard work on the t
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Me...
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