![]() ![]() ![]() The Austins brought Anglo, land-hungry colonists across the Sabine River into Eastern Texas in the early 1820s by offering legalized slavery. Tejanos found in Anglo entrepreneurs like the Austin family a viable escape from a decades long crisis. Comanches raided the already weakened Tejanos. Tejas found itself unable to pay the Comanche tribute precisely at the time that the Mississippi River cotton boom required large imports of horses. A royalist bloody response to the creation of autonomous creole juntas almost led to the annihilation of the Tejano population. Torget shows that Spanish Texas had become an utterly dysfunctional polity. Andrew Torget’s Seeds of Empire places the early history of nineteenth-century Texas squarely within the political economy of slavery, cotton, and geopolitics. ![]()
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