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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.
The history of slavery in Texas began slowly at first during the first few phases in Texas' history. Texas was a colonial territory, then part of Mexico, later Republic in 1836, and U.S. state in 1845.
— 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.
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[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.
[54] [55] Texas slave-owner and settler Stephen F. Austin viewed slavery as absolutely necessary to the success of the settlement, and managed to get an exemption from the law. Texas rebelled against the central Mexican government of Antonio López de Santa Anna , gaining its de facto independence in 1836.
u0022We would pick a decade we wished we could live in instead of this; I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists,u0022 Taylor Swift sings on her new album u0022The Tortured Poets Department ...