History Beyond the Textbook: Examining Slavery, Texas and America’s Untold Past
There are many events missing from history books and classrooms at the public-school level and at universities.
According to research, there were Black slaves in the American colonies well before 1619 and so the idea that the first enslaved Africans arrived at Jamestown is not actually true.
Texas Independence and White Supremacy
On another point, let’s get Texas history straight, so that the lies told for almost 200 years can be corrected. Lorenzo de Zavala (1836), of Texas independence myth, once called Black people the “Jews of North America.” De Zavala and other bigots, were pawns in a white supremacist plot to steal Mexican land which was schemed up by Andrew Jackson Sam Houston, and others. The white supremacist Stephen F. Austin once said, “ Satan entered the sacred garden in the shape of a serpent and if allowed to enter Texas in the shape of Negroes, it will share the fate of Eden.” This bigot is another Texas white supremacist that rotten or ignorant history tellers want us to ignore.
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James Fannin and Slavery
James Fannin, of Texas independence fame and a cutthroat slave owner, was a major player in the trading of human beings, and one who modern day Alamo defenders try to make into some kind of hero but actually was a dirty little scamp. The white supremacist Fannin delivered more than 150 enslaved Blacks from Cuba to Texas in 1835, and they want us to think of him as a hero?
The Cherokee Nation and the Civil War
What you don’t know can hurt you. During the Civil War the Cherokee Nation supported the slave owners, but not all of them. Even before the Civil War, in the Southeast, Cherokee leaders prohibited members of the tribe from marrying Blacks. These particular Cherokees thought that by adopting the ways of racist Whites they would become accepted. Many Cherokees even whipped Blacks who refused to accept their copied White laws. Cherokee nations even had Black slaves they refused to free after the war. However, there were Cherokees that refused slavery. There was actually a civil war among Cherokees over this issue with some supporting the slave owners (Chief Yellow Bird) and the others supporting the Union (Chief Sani).
Confederates Who Fled to Mexico
The slave owners were defeated in 1865 and many of them ran into Mexico in the hope that the French would conquer Mexico, but their plans were dashed when the French emperor was defeated and executed on June 19, 1867, on the very date of Juneteenth some years later after the first Juneteenth. The former slave owners set up a colony for slavery in Mexico but it was destroyed by Mexican fighters.
Class, Capitalism and White Supremacy
A class analysis, all by itself, is inadequate as white supremacy flourished and became an ingrained feature within capitalism. My leftist friends have not studied the origins of white supremacy as they need to. White supremacy vaporized class on one hand and justified slavery on the other. Thus, Class and racism were fused at the hip. Only looking at class polarization is a big mistake as capitalism did not create racism. White supremacy existed in force in the 1400s, when there was no capitalism, it appeared during the Moorish conquest of Spain and after the so-called White Spaniards removed the Moors.
Moorish and Afro-Mexican Ancestry
Interestingly, Moorish ancestry in Mexico is the result of the 800-year Islamic rule in Spain. When the Spanish colonized Mexico, they brought converted Muslims (Moriscos), and enslaved Africans who passed down their Moorish genetic and cultural influences into the Mexican gene pool. I have reviewed my own genetic ancestry and it reveals this fact as well as the Afro-Mexican ancestry in my genetic pool.
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