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It is a persuasive case that, with very few missteps, inarguably also binds slavery to the story of the development of modern Texas. To the contrary, he argues, cotton is at the root of Spanish-Indian relations in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Tejano (Mexican Texans) support for Anglo-American immigration in the 1820s and 1830s, the growing hostility between Texas and both Mexico City and Coahuila, the protracted failure of the Republic of Texas, and the way annexation eventually came about. Torget accurately insists, Anglo-American historians of Texas have long resisted laying the republic’s independence at the feet of the slavery-driven cotton economy that bloomed in what he calls the “Texas borderlands” of the 1820s and 1830s.
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