NEW: One Texas GOP legislator has proposed an "1836 Project" for "patriotic education"—which is a good chance to revisit just how central cementing slavery was to the Texas Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/161685…
Quick timeline of slavery and the Texas Revolution:
1829: Mexico abolishes slavery.
1830: Anglo lobbyists secure a slavery "exemption" for Texas.
1833: Stephen F. Austin: "Texas must be a slave country."
1835: First shots of the Texas Revolution.
The Texas Revolution: Less a successor to the American Revolution, and far more a precursor to the Confederate slave empire.
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Maybe the most insane stat:
The number of humans enslaved absolutely exploded in the Republic of Texas—it grew 500% in less than a decade of Texas independence.
All things considered:
The Republic of Texas was arguably the most anti-Black, and most avowedly white supremacist, country to have ever existed.
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One person who saw the Republic of Texas for exactly what it was: Ulysses S. Grant.
As Grant wrote, the entire reason for the “occupation, separation and annexation” of Texas was to create more American slave states.
Someone once described the Texas Revolution as one giant American filibuster in the service of expanding slave empire, which... yeah, basically.
The language from the GOP sponsor of this "1836 Project" gives away what the project will actually be:
—They have to make sure that Texas's "rich and storied history is always treasured."
—They have to "protect the history" of Texas (from what?).
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