Texas Slavery Economics
Texas textbook war: ' Slavery' or 'Atlantic triangular trade'?

200,000 slaves at the beginning of the Civil War

Texas Treasures - Slavery - Texas State Library

Slave Narratives
Slave Narrative Collection

Digital History

Folk History of Slavery

Slave Codes
Texas Slave Codes 1821

Slavery in Waco

Jubilee - The end of slavery in America! On June 19, 1865 word of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached enslaved African Americans in Texas, two years after it was signed in 1863 and slaves in other states had been freed by law. Festivals honoring the emancipation of enslaved African Americans were celebrated by blacks and whites alike for decades, dying out by the 1920s. One hundred forty-seven years later, the Texas festival, "Juneteenth", remains the most prominent of the freedom festivals that remain nationwide, owing to the number of African Americans with Texas roots throughout the U.S. This holiday is especially poignant given the conditions of enforced illiteracy of those enslaved Texans, whose owners kept secret from them the truth of their own freedom. In honor of those ancestors, we celebrate not only our ethnic heritage, but our birthright as individuals who are free to pursue our educational goals.

Juneteenth History

Inventory of the Slavery/Emancipation Documents

Expansion, Slavery, and Civil War Timeline

Juneteenth Celebrates Freedom for Texas Slaves

Juneteenth wiki

What is Juneteenth?

More Texas Slave Records

The urban experience of African Americans in Texas began during slavery

Brazoria County, Texas, in 1860

Texas State Archives

I Was Born in Slavery

Underground Railroad