Texas is one of several Southern states with a holiday honoring the Confederacy but its...
— have had to fight against organizations and states committed to keeping them intact, including at the Texas Capitol.
That we have removed some of the Confederate cause's most potent symbols is not a hollow victory, but it is an incomplete one.In Texas, our fight cannot end with Confederate memorials, school names and holidays.In 1826, a proposed ban of slavery in the Mexican state where Stephen F. Austin was growing his fledgling colony confirmed his worst fears. The colony’s original contract,, protected not only the colonists but their “property” too.
With the help of representatives, Austin managed to secure enough of a loophole to protect slavery and he carried on recruiting more slaveholders. But the issue remained a point of contention until the Texas Revolution, fought by and large,documents, to ensure that slavery could continue despite rising abolitionist sentiment.
Texas styled itself a haven for slaveholders in the U.S. South who feared the brewing anti-slavery attitudes at home. In the decade before the Civil War, the enslaved population soared in Texas. Enslavers were not just protected but encouraged. No free Black person was even allowed to live in the state
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