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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Project Director's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Editorial Style -- Introduction. Human Chattels: The Laws of Slavery in Texas -- Chapter One. Laws on Slavery in Mexican Texas, 1821-1836 -- Legal Documents -- Empire of Mexico, Colonisation Law of January 4, 1823 -- Stephen F. Austin's Colony Criminal Regulations, 1824, Articles 10-14 -- Congress of the United Mexican States, Decree on the Slave Trade in Mexico, July 13, 1824 -- Constitution of Coahuila and Texas, March 11, 1827, Article 13 -- State of Coahuila and Texas, Decree No. 18, September 15, 1827 -- State of Coahuila and Texas, Decree No. 35, November 24, 1827 -- State of Coahuila and Texas, Decree No. 56, May 5, 1828 -- Republic of Mexico, Decree of April 6, 1830 -- State of Coahuila and Texas, Decree No. 190, April 28, 1832 -- Articles -- Slavery in Early Texas, I -- Slavery in Early Texas, II -- Chapter Two. Laws on Slavery in the Republic and Statehood Periods, 1836-1860 -- Legal Documents -- Constitution of the Republic of Texas, 1836, General Provisions, Sections 6, 9, 10 -- Constitution of the State of Texas, 1845, Article 8 -- Articles -- The Law of Slavery in Texas -- The Texas Supreme Court and Trial Rights of Blacks, 1845-1860 -- Cases -- Case Study: One Woman's Fight for Freedom: Gess v. Lubbock, 1851 -- Case Report: Henry B. Hedgepeth and Others v. Felix W. Robertson, 1857 -- Chapter Three. Laws on Free Negroes in the Republic and Statehood Periods, 1836-1860 -- Legal Documents -- Republic of Texas Congress, Debate on the Emancipation of Peter Martin, December 1839, and An Act to Authorize Wylie Martin to Emancipate his slave Peter, January 3, 1840 -- Republic of Texas, An Act Concerning Free Persons of Color, February 5, 1840 -- Republic of Texas, An Act for the Relief of Certain Free Persons of Color, December 12, 1840 -- Article.

Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State illuminates the ways in which Kiowas on the southern plains dealt with the U.S. government?s efforts to control them after they were forced onto a reservation by an 1867 treaty. The overarching effects of colonial domination resembled those suffered by other Native groups at the time?a considerable loss of land and population decline, as well as a continual erosion of the Kiowas? political, cultural, economic, and religious sovereignty and traditions. Although readily acknowledging these far-reaching consequences, Jacki Thompson Rand sees the root i

Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today. Unlike other agricultural regions, Los Angeles saw important opportunities for intercultural exchange develop around the arts and within multi-ethnic community groups; these inter-ethnic encounters formed the basis for political cooperation to address labour discrimination and solve problems of residential and educational segregation

This book captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her continuing work up to her death in 2005. Each chapter provides an exploration of a period in Parks's life, portraying the people, places, and events that shaped and were shaped by her. Readers will see in Parks, not an inadvertent tripwire of history, but a woman whose lifelong struggle against racism led her inexorably to a moment where she took a courageous stand by sitting down and not moving

Pierce City: "we were once slaves" -- Pierce City: "white man's heaven" -- Pierce City: the lark and Godley trials -- Joplin: "have mercy on my soul" -- Joplin: "hurrah for Hickory Bill" -- Springfield: "the devil was just as good a friend to God" -- Springfield: "a slumbering volcano" -- Springfield: "the Easter offering" -- Springfield: "they certainly had not the bearing of deacons" -- Springfield: "murder in the air" -- Harrison: "their voices filled the air" -- Conclusion.