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Download or read book Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1839 1840 to which are Added the Relief Laws written by Texas (Republic). Congress and published by . This book was released on 1931* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1839 1840 written by Texas. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1931* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1839 1840 written by Texas (Republic). Congress and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1839 1840 To which are Added the Relief Laws Edited by Harriet Smither written by Texas. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1839 1840 written by Texas. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports and Relief Laws written by Texas. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1931* with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas 1841 1842 written by Texas. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journals of the Congress of the Republic of Texas written by Texas (Republic) Congress and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Writings of Sam Houston 1813 1863 written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Laws of Slavery in Texas written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas apart from the other slave-holding states and provides a unique opportunity to examine how slave laws were enacted and upheld as political and legal structures changed. The Laws of Slavery in Texas makes that examination possible by combining seminal historical essays with excerpts from key legal documents from the slave period and tying them together with interpretive commentary by the foremost scholar on the subject, Randolph B. Campbell. Campbell's commentary focuses on an aspect of slave law that was particularly evident in the evolving legal system of early Texas: the dilemma that arose when human beings were treated as property. As Campbell points out, defining slaves as moveable property, or chattel, presented a serious difficulty to those who wrote and interpreted the law because, unlike any other form of property, slaves were sentient beings. They were held responsible for their crimes, and in numerous other ways statute and case law dealing with slavery recognized the humanness of the enslaved. Attempts to protect the property rights of slave owners led to increasingly restrictive laws—including laws concerning free blacks—that were difficult to uphold. The documents in this collection reveal both the roots of the dilemma and its inevitable outcome.

Download or read book An Empire for Slavery written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and incorrectly perceived as fundamentally western in its political and social orientation. In fact, most of the settlers of this region were emigrants from the South, and many of these people brought with them their slaves and all aspects of slavery as it had matured in their natives states. In An Empire for Slavery, Randolph B. Campbell examines slavery in the antebellum South's newest state and reveals how central slavery was to Texas history. The "peculiar institution" was perhaps the most important factor in determining the economic development and ideological orientation of the state in the years leading to the Civil War. Campbell points out that although the area of slaveholding in Texas covered only two-fifths of the state by 1860, this area alone was as large as Alabama and Mississippi combined and constituted "a virtual empire for slavery." By the outbreak of the Civil War, the proportion of slaveholders and slaves in Texas was comparable to that of Virginia, the oldest slaveholding state in the Union. Utilizing records such as federal censuses, wills and other probate papers, and the WPA slave narratives, Campbell raises a number of questions concerning the nature of slavery in Texas. What factors encouraged the adoption of slavery? Under what conditions did the Texas slaves exist? What was the societal impact of slavery in this new state? How did the Civil War itself affect slavery in the state? Campbell also reviews the proslavery argument put forward by many early Texas statesmen. What emerges is a picture of a state whose political future was sen as dependent upon the continuance of slavery and whose role in the Civil War was determined by this choice. As a result of this study, Texas is revealed as a state not unlike those of the older South. An Empire for Slavery is the first examination of the "peculiar institution" as it existed in Texas. Historians and general readers alike will find it an essential examination of the region, the period, and the phenomenon of slavery.

Download or read book Recollections of Early Texas written by John Holmes Jenkins and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword

Download or read book Galveston Island or A Few Months off the Coast of Texas written by Francis C. Sheridan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the last Sunday of the year 1839, Francis Sheridan, an elegant young Irishman in the British diplomatic service, sailed from Barbados for the Republic of Texas. His mission in the new nation was to contribute the opinion of an eyewitness to the deliberations going on in London concerning proposed recognition of Texas. This jounal contains some of the material that Sheridan used for his official report and much colorful detail that he did not use. First published by the University of Texas Press in 1956, it is the travel diary of a sophisticated and discerning student of human nature.