Product Description: When you think of early Texas history, you think of freedom fighters at the Alamo and rugged cowboys riding the plains. You usually don't think too much about slavery in the Lone Star State. Although slavery only existed in Texas from the second decade of the 19th century to the close of the Civil War, the majority of early settlers came to Texas from other Southern states...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Many defenders of slavery in Texas, believing it was in harmony with natural law, sanctioned by the Bible, and the best system for the Negro, maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is--'tis he who has endured...read more