Seeds of Empire (eBook)

Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Andrew J. Torget (Autor)

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2015
368 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2425-9 (ISBN)

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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 Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the aftermath, Anglo-Americans rebuilt the Texas borderlands into the most unlikely creation: the first fully committed slaveholders' republic in North America. Seeds of Empire tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

Autor

Andrew J. Torget is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2015
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 3 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, appends., notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: 1830 and slavery • abolitionist movement in Texas • Agustín Viesca • Agustín Viesca • American colonization of Mexico • American migration to Mexico • American westward migration • Anglo-Tejano alliance • annexation of Texas • anti-British sentiment in Texas • antislavery debates in Texas • Antonio Martínez • Antonio Martínez • Article 13 • attitudes of Texans toward annexation • Baron de Bastrop and slavery • Charles Elliot and abolitionism in Texas • Charles Elliot and slavery in Texas • Charles Elliot and the annexation of Texas • Civilian and Galveston Gazette and annexation of Texas • Civilian and Galveston Gazette and slavery • Coahuila and slavery • Coahuila and Texas • Comanches and horse raids • Constitution of 1824 and slavery • Constitution of 1827 • cotton and the annexation of Texas • cotton diplomacy in Texas • cotton farming in Texas • cotton farms and horse raids • cotton shipping in early Galveston • Daniel O’Connell and Texas annexation • Daniel O’Connell and Texas annexation • Decree 56 • enthusiasm of Texans for annexation • Erasmo Seguín • Erasmo Seguín • failure of the Republic of Texas • France and the Republic of Texas • Fredonian Rebellion • Henry Brougham and abolition of slavery in Texas • Henry Palmerston and Texas • indentured servitude in Texas • James Kirkham • Jean Laffite and slave smuggling • Jeremey Bentham and slavery • Joaquín de Arredondo • Joaquín de Arredondo • John Quitman in Texas • José Antonio Navarro • José Antonio Saucedo • José Francisco Madero • José María Tornel and Texas • José María Viesca • José Antonio Navarro • José Antonio Saucedo • José Francisco Madero • José María Tornel and Texas • José María Viesca • Juan Martín de Veramendi • Juan Martín de Veramendi • Juan Seguín • Juan Seguín • Law of April 6 • Liverpool and Texas • Lucas Alamán and Texas • Lucas Alamán and Texas • Manuel de Mier y Terán and slavery • Manuel de Mier y Terán and slavery • McKinney-Williams firm • Moses Austin • New Orleans and Texas • Nineteenth-Century • nineteenth-century newspaper networks • Peach Point Plantation • Quitana • Ramon Músquiz • Ramon Músquiz • Republic of Texas constitution • Republic of Texas shipments of cotton • R. G. Mills and Co. • road to the U.S.-Mexican War • runaway slaves in Mexico • runaway slaves in Texas • Saltillo slavery debates • Samuel May Williams • secession of Texas from Mexico • Section 9 of Republic of Texas Constitution • slaveholders’ republic in Texas • slaveholders’ republic in Texas • slave insurrections in Texas • slavery and Mirabeau Lamar • slavery and Sam Houston • slavery and Stephen F. Austin • slavery and Texas independence • slavery and the annexation of Texas • slavery and the Runaway Scrape • slavery and the Texas revolution • slavery debates in Mexico • slavery in early Mexico • Slavery in Texas • slavery in the Republic of Texas • slavery in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands • slave smuggling in Texas • Stephen F. Austin • Stephen Pearl Andrews • Tejanos • Telegraph and Texas Register and annexation • Telegraph and Texas Register and cotton • Telegraph and Texas Register and slavery • Texas borderlands • Texas cotton • Texas Slavery Project • Texas under Mexican rule • Texas under Mexico • Texas under New Spain • Thomas McKinney • transformation of Texas • Vicente Guerrero and Texas • William Bollaert and cotton in Texas • William Bolleart and slavery in Texas • William Kennedy and slavery in Texas • William Lloyd Garrison’s opposition to Texas • William Lloyd Garrison’s opposition to Texas • xenophobia in Texas
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2425-7 / 1469624257
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2425-9 / 9781469624259