Sam Houston and slavery
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title:
Sam Houston and slavery
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Sam Houston was a slaveholder who had a complicated history with the institution of slavery. He was the president of the independent Republic of Texas, which was founded as a slave-holding nation, and governor of Texas after its 1845 annexation to the union as a slave state. He voted various times against the extension of slavery into the Western United States and he did not swear an oath to the Confederate States of America, which marked the end of his political career. Houston believed that it
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Sam Houston's relationship with slavery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston_and_slavery
date created:
2021-07-10T20:37:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T14:54:31Z
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