Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
by
Andrew J. Torget
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
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...