The Republic of Texas was built upon two pillars: cotton and slavery. This hour, we’ll talk about how this important crop and the labor that fueled it led to the Texas revolution – and about how Texas provided a blue print for the Confederacy – with UNT assistant history professor Andrew Torget. He writes about the topic in his book “Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850” (University of North Carolina Press).
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