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

Emancipated black people, he explained, would never attain high standing in society. Thus they needed to be trained “to be laborers and servants” in order to survive, and he could think of no better school for that than slavery.