Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

by Andrew J. Torget

Book Overview

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that slavery accompany them sparked pitched...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469645564
• ISBN13: 9781469645568
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 9.5"