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Ya'll know why all those guys died at the Alamo? Twas to preserve Slavery, yep, the Mexicans had outlawed slavery, and the freedom loving Texans did not like that one little bit, so they revolted against the lawful government of the land.
First you need to learn how to spell Y'all. Second you are absolutely clueless about your history.
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First you need to learn how to spell Y'all. Second you are absolutely clueless about your history.
Bad teachers where you went to school ?
too Funny, Are you a Texan pretending to be a Southerner, well you ain't, as my Georgia relatives will happily point out, and Texans ain't Westerners either, with their little turned up taco hats.
Another factoid of Texas history, That Yellow Rose of Texas? she was a mulatto prostitute, high yeller.
I would not argue history with me, ya'll will lose.
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One issue notably absent from the Texas declaration--and from all previous Alamo movies--was slavery. Almost a quarter of the original American settlers in Texas owned slaves. When the Mexican government abolished the practice, Texans viewed it as yet another infringement on their liberty. "The colonists were overwhelmingly southerners," says William C. Davis, author of Lone Star Rising: The Revolutionary Birth of the Texas Republic, "and they felt they needed slaves to capitalize on that vast arable land in the eastern part of the state." To take away slavery, they felt, was to take away Texas.
The slavery question has muddied the pristine image of the Texas revolution. John Quincy Adams, two months after the Alamo, argued on the floor of the U.S. House that "the war now raging in Texas is a Mexican civil war and a war for the re-establishment of slavery where it was abolished." Popular history never mentions it, says Davis, but in the Texas revolution "you have the same contradiction [that you do in] the Civil War, when you've got several million Confederate citizens and soldiers preaching all the rhetoric of liberty while owning 3 million slaves."
Ah reckon they don't teach that much in ya'll's Texas schools, a bit embarrassing eh?
too Funny, Are you a Texan pretending to be a Southerner, well you ain't, as my Georgia relatives will happily point out, and Texans ain't Westerners either, with their little turned up taco hats.
Another factoid of Texas history, That Yellow Rose of Texas? she was a mulatto prostitute, high yeller.
I would not argue history with me, ya'll will lose.
And again another attempted redirection which has nothing to do with California and little to do with the issue the OP addressed. Pitiful!
And again another attempted redirection which has nothing to do with California and little to do with the issue the OP addressed. Pitiful!
Rankin, you won!
I don't get it, Chief ... none of the thread has anything to do with California -- and this will get tossed off the board as soon as the mods see it ... soon. And .high's points are correct historically ... and do kinda peripherally fit in with the discussion -- it being a rag on a nutty Texas judge's political insanity and all.
What did Rankin win? He claimed the Alamo was not a battle for the right to perpetuate slavery ... but it was ...
The scariest part to me is that a judge is saying this.
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