Only 16 years had passed since Texas' request for statehood, and it was admitted to the Union as a slave state in 1845.
Who smuggled slavery into Texas?
- There were 182,566 more individuals by 1860. The majority of the slaves arrived in Texas with white families from the American South. There were some slaves bought and sold domestically, mostly out of New Orleans.
- Texas was the last state in America where slaves were utilized as property. Between 1821 and 1865, a period of less than fifty years, the "Peculiar Institution," as Southerners called it, grew throughout the eastern two-fifths of the state, occupying an area that was nearly the size of Alabama and Mississippi combined.
- The number of slaves in Texas was only around 5,000 when the state went through its revolution in 1836, but by the time the state was annexed into the United States in 1845, there were 30,000 slaves. Statehood Moreover, Texas was admitted to the Union as a slave state (1845–1865) after submitting its statehood application barely 16 years before the Civil War.
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