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

And without slave-based agriculture driving a thriving economy in Texas, there would be no migration from the United States to sustain the colonies. “Therefore we must either abandon the finest portion of Texas to its original uselessness,” concluded Fisher, “or submit to the acknowledged, but lesser evil of Slavery.”