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The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons.

Sources:

Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Randolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865

Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad.

Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850