Episode 383 - The Texas Revolution: Part 1

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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The first in our four-part series about the Texas Revolution, a story in which some of the drunkest and worst-smelling guys of the 19th century decided to break away from Mexico for... reasons. Sources: Edward Baptist. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Randolph Campbell. An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865 Stephen Hardin. Texian Illad. Andrew Torget. Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800–1850

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