Set in the years surrounding the 1836 Texas War of Independence, Escape from Texas is a solidly researched examination of the clashing aspirations of slaves, slave owners, Indians, and Mexicans during a turning point of the westward expansion of the United States. Over the next nine years James will experience and participate in a series of wrenching events that marked the origins of the Lone Star State. His owner, though, is determined to take advantage of the low cost of land in Texas to build up a farm into a cotton plantation with the use of slave labor. But once there, he finds a postrevolutionary country where slavery is on the way out and his freedom is a real possibility. James comes to Texas because he has no choice. Texas is then a part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. In 1828 James, a slave, arrives in Texas, brought by his owner, Samuel Bingham.
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