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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.
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.
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.
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.
[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.
The Florida Department of Education faced angry reaction from across the nation this week to new African American history standards suggesting some slaves benefited from skills they learned while ...
In May 1831, upon his arrival in Mexican Texas, a part of northern Mexico at the time, Travis purchased land from Stephen F. Austin, who appointed him counsel from the United States. [20] He set up a law practice in Anahuac and helped start a militia to oppose Mexican rule. [21] He subsequently became a pivotal figure in the Anahuac ...
Stephen F. Austin: Austin's Colony between Brazos and Colorado rivers San Felipe De Austin took over his father Moses Austin's empresario contract David G. Burnet: East Texas, northwest of Nacogdoches sold his land grant to the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company Martín De León: De León's Colony: Victoria