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1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of unmarried men.
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas, [1] [2] he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization of the region by bringing 300 families and their slaves from the United States to the Tejas region of Mexico in 1825.
Regarding slavery, influential settler Stephen F. Austin, who reasoned that the success of his colonies needed slave labor and the economics it produced to lure more whites to the area, used his relationships to get an exemption from the law. [7] Therefore, slavery remained in Texas until the end of the American Civil War.
That year, the American Stephen F. Austin was granted permission by Mexican authorities to bring Anglo settlers into Texas. [17] Most of the settlers Austin recruited came from the southern slave-owning portions of the United States. [11]
[12] [16] Austin's colonists, mostly pro-slavery immigrants from the south, threatened to leave Texas if the proposition passed, while prospective Southern immigrants hesitated to come to Texas until slavery was guaranteed there. [15] Austin conceded that the success of his colony was dependent on slavery.
— Stephen F. Austin, May 4, 1836. The city of Austin, Texas has recently considered changing its name because of this. In my view, that Stephen F. Austin was a white supremacist is not controversial and is widely reported by RSes. Adding the category complies with CATVER and MOS:LABEL, based on the article as it stands now.
The new Law of April 6, 1830, however, nullified the colonization contract with the Texas Association. Stephen F. Austin was able to get an exemption for his colony and that of Green DeWitt. [19] Robertson asked for Austin's assistance in getting an exemption for the association's colonization efforts.
The southern boundary was a colony belonging to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas; he had received special permission to establish his colony several years previously. East of Edwards's grant was the former Sabine Free State , an area which had been essentially lawless for several decades.