• emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    and created by people who illegally brought slaves to Mexican territory, expressly to keep owning them

    oh country, thought you meant Texas (although massage it a little and it applies to the USA as a whole)

    • usa_suxxx
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      15 days ago

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    • RNAi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Is that..., is that how the Mexican-Yank war started?

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yes but that's not the whole story of course. Texas was "independent" before being annexed into the USA (this was a big political issue because it would be a slave state and would imbalance the anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions by adding another slave state) and then the continued disputes about the border between Texas and Mexico led to the war. Edit: But yeah, it was pretty much all about the right to own black people as slaves. Edit 2: fun (depressing) fact about the war was that a lot of the confederate generals got their start during the Mexico-USA war. Lee is a notable example.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I think so, but I might be wrong

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Texas