1836

Texas independence protects a slaveholding settler order

Texas; enslaved Black people, Tejanos and Indigenous nations

Dunbar-Ortiz links Anglo settlement and secession to the preservation and expansion of slavery, followed by violence against Native peoples and Tejanos. Independence did not mean equal liberty for the territory’s inhabitants.

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Context / qualification

The constitutional slavery provisions should be consulted for precise legal claims.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 7

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