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btilly • today at 7:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The greater meaning of a revolution that was fought to preserve slavery.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/how-leaders-texas-r...

When we remember history, what we remember tends to be white-washed.


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Der_Einzige • today at 7:39 PM

The Mexican government and especially Santa Anna were not even close to saints and were not primarily fighting the Texans for reasons of slavery. The Mexican empire carved out slavery as being explicitly allowed in the Mexican state that become known as Texas.

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