Seeds of Empire Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

Name: Seeds of Empire Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
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ISBN: 9781469645568

ISBN-10: 1469645564

ISBN-13: 9781469645568

Edition: 2015

Authors: Andrew J. Torget

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By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico. An extraordinary alliance of Anglos and Mexicans in Texas came together to defend slavery against abolitionists in the Mexican government, beginning a series of fights that culminated in the Texas Revolution. In the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2018
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English