Redbrickbear said:
Waco1947 said:
4th and Inches said:
The "americans" that moved to Texas were mexican citizens. The problems started when Mexico's republic government which made certain promises to the Texas region of Mexico changed its ruling processes when the political leadership and style of govt changed.
Heros like Bowie married a local Mexican woman and had children. There is a statue of Juan Seguin at the Alamo. The locals were not marginalized. The sacrifices made by the men and women who fought for independence at Goliad, Gonzalez, Refurio, the Alamo, and San Jacinto should not be marginalized by idiots who havent taken the time to read the letters and journals to get to the internal thoughts and feelings of those who were there
The US didnt want another slave state, Texas was a republic for years before becoming a state.
Everything about this book appears to be bias slanted trash having little to do with the truth of what happened.
Short sighted reading of San Antonio. Tejanos were marginalized as soon Texians arrived.
Many of the Tejanos in Texas before 1900 were rich land owners in South Texas.
They were certainly incorporated into Texas political, economic, and cultural life.
Now this did change around 1900 with the large scale immigration of non-Tejano decedent Mexicans from much farther south in central Mexico. "Between 1900 and 1930, political turmoil in Mexico combined with the rise of agribusiness in the American Southwest to prompt a large-scale migration of Mexicans to the U.S."
And then another great wave of Mexican immigrants arrived from 1970-present.
These 2nd larger waves of Hispanic immigrants did some times face discrimination...but the rich, educated, and politically powerful Tejanos from the time of the Texas revolution can not be lumped into the same groups.
This is like lumping in the Dutch in New York in 1780 with the Irish in New York in 1880 because they both had light skin/were European.
Great story but the issue is slavery. Incidentally TX Rangers slaughtered Tejanos on the border.
After the
Texas Revolution ended in 1836, the
Constitution of the Republic of Texas made slavery legal. The
General Provisions of the Constitution forbade any slave owner from freeing his slaves without the consent of Congress and forbade Congress from making any law that restricted the slave trade or emancipated slaves.
Americans of European extraction and slaves contributed greatly to the population growth in the
Republic and
State of Texas. Settlements grew and developed more land under cultivation in
cotton and other commodities. The cotton industry flourished in
East Texas, where enslaved labor became most widely used. The central part of the state was dominated by
subsistence farmers. Free and runaway blacks had great difficulty finding jobs in Texas. Many worked in other parts of the state as
cowboys herding cattle or migrated for better opportunities in the
Midwest,
California, or southward to Mexico.
Waco1947