How Violence and Human Trade Shaped the Lone Star State
In Texas, and many other places, Black people were bought, sold, inventoried as property, given to relatives upon death, hired out, given as gifts for birthdays and at Christmas by so-called Christians who can only be accurately described as savages. Fake Christians made these transactions of human beings when thousands if not millions thought it wrong. The Moses Austin colony of Texas seems to have started all of this hateful system of human bondage. In 1824, the Austin colony hired out a Black woman and her child for 70-year hire contracts provided they “live that long.” Stephen F. Austin purchased an enslaved woman named Mary in 1828, while William B. Travis, of bloated Alamo fame, sold a 5-year boy for two-hundred twenty-five dollars. Stepen F. Austin passed on Mary to the wife of a friend in his will as if she were a cow or a horse. Many of these so-called transactions of human beings was against Mexican law.
White Settlers and the Slave System
When the first White settlers arrived in Texas, they established the slave system that was to endure years after the Civil War. No honest human being can call Stephen F. Austin, Moses Austin, William Travis, Jim Bowie, David Crockett, and many others good heroes! These men were the scum of the earth for their participation in the slave trade. The fake brave men were from slave owning states, and yes there were states that did not allow slavery, Stephen F. Austin was a foul-mouth liar as he proclaimed to be against slavery while owning slaves. Slavery was necessary because lazy slave owners like those mentioned were not going to pick the cotton themselves and wanted to pass on the idea of not working for a living to their distant future relatives.
The Revolt Against Mexico and Slavery’s Role
Benjamin Lundy, a White abolitionist, made the true argument that the revolt against Mexico in 1836 was slavery in 1837. Lundy said, “The immediate cause and leading object of the contest originated in a settled design, among the slaveholders of this country to wrest the large and valuable territory of Texas from the Mexican Republic, in order to re-establish the system of slavery; to open a vast and profitable slave-market therein; and ultimately to annex it to the United States.” This was proven true when Texas became a Republic and wrote in its constitution that slavery would continue and that free Blacks had better leave or be enslaved once again. Only those Blacks who were mulatto and supported slavery were allowed to stay like Hendrick Arnold and Samuel McCulloch who are both falsely lionized by ignorant historians. One of these pro-slavery Blacks has been awarded a statue at the Alamo in one of the most racist attempts to make it appear that all Blacks supported that slaveowners and the Alamo racists.
Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and Expansion of Slavery
Sam Houston, a slave owner, and Andrew Jackson also helped to establish the slave system in Texas by pushing the ideas of stealing Mexican lands and removing Native people to push the slave institution all the way to the West coast. The connections between the slaughter of Native people and Andrew Jackon will need more research. The slave system was supported by the fact that hundreds of slaves were transported from Cuba to Texas in the 1840s. just before the Alamo chaos, in January of 1836, an English ship landed Black slaves from the island of Grenada at Galveston, Texas. The slave owner and thief, James Bowie, had plenty to do with shipments of human beings form Africa via Cuba, Grenada, or some other island controlled by the European colonial slave trade.
