Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

by Andrew J. Torget

“These ideas that so much degrade the men who proclaim so greatly liberalism,” Madero thundered to his fellow legislators, “I do not think the colonists of Austin, the Colorado and Guadalupe have abandoned them on the other side of the Sabine.”