![]() ![]() Correcting the heroic narrative of the Texas Revolution, Dr. The central role of cotton and its link to slavery in Texas is a long neglected subject in popular culture. ![]() Torget links the southern cotton frontier, which Marian, Richard, and Tivi were trying to escape from, to the formation of the Republic of Texas. In Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850, Andrew J. After being captured by Spanish authorities in Béxar, the three refugees explained their desire to seek freedom from the cruel treatment of their master, James Kirkham, one of Moses Austin’s companions. However, preceding Austin and his companions were three slaves (Marian, Richard, and Tivi) who escaped a Louisiana cotton plantation. Moses Austin’s 1820 trip to San Antonio de Béxar paved the way for thousands of American immigrants to Spanish Texas and eventually led to an independent Texas Republic and later, annexation to the United States of America. ![]()
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