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Cotton farms once dominated the area surrounding Castroville. Now much of that land has been replaced with high-density neighborhoods and commercial real estate.On Sept. 30, 1830, native San Antonian Juan Martín de Veramendi appeared before the top officials of Mexico’s Coahuila y Tejas state, vouching personally for his prospective son-in-law, Jim Bowie, to be granted Mexican citizenship.
Cotton became abundant and valuable. Finished cotton products could be equal in worth to horses, the most valuable and liquid forms of wealth. This prompted Bowie and Veramendi’s agreement. In return for Veramendi’s sponsorship and his daughter Ursula’s hand in marriage, Bowie would purchase land as a Mexican citizen to establish wool and cotton mills in Texas.
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, so Tejano lawmakers and Anglo-American planters formed a loophole: When crossing the border, immigrating slaves would be forced to sign contracts indenturing themselves for 99 years to their masters. Now indebted workers, they continued being slaves in all but name.
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