Talk:History of slavery in Texas

Over-reliance on one source

While several sources are listed, actual citations are mostly from one. Editors should provide inline citations from additional reliable sources.--Parkwells (talk) 21:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Legacy Section

The end of the legacy section seems off topic. It ends with a sentence on voter ID laws. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.164.86.110 (talk) 22:10, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

I would have to agree that the voter ID law is really off topic. I don't see what the connection is between slavery and a, freely obtainable voter ID card is. IMHO it should be struck from the page. Also I think the part after slave emancipation could be made into a page about Jim Crow laws in Texas and how they were used to keep minorities (especially African-Americans) from exercising their rights. Whiskey5jda (talk) 09:23, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

I'd like to chip in by stating that the suspected 58,000 fraudulent voters was strictly speculation on the part of the Texas State Voter Commission. They came to this conclusion by comparing drivers license records to the voter database, and marking entries as suspect for people who had used resident alien card or some such - never mind that a Texas DL is good for four years, and a resident alien could become a naturalized citizen within that timeframe. This article from the ACLU has details: https://www.aclu.org/blog/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/trump-says-58000-texans-voted-illegally-heres-what

Granted, it's a bit of a screed against Trump, but it does state the facts clearly and concisely. To attempt to say that voter fraud is an issue in the State of Texas is like trying to take a dog-bites-man news blurb and turn it into a campaign against so-called dangerous dog breeds. In other words, it was not an issue at all. In all reality, there has only been a single case of confirmed voter fraud in the State of Texas. And the magnificent irony of it all was that she is a Mexican national that voted Republican at a time when the GOP is doing everything in their power to suppress minorities at the polls. (Some even gleefully cop to this, so it's not like I'm tooting a partisan horn here.)

In fact, it would be far more relevant in this section of the article to include more examples of efforts by Texas politicians to deter non-white voters from the polls. 2600:1700:1880:411F:B039:783E:AE60:2E73 (talk) 00:08, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

I added the Failed verification tag to the citation following "which has been a problem in the past" as the current article doesn't mention anything about factual cases of voter fraud; not even the single case of voter fraud commented on above. Ninrez (talk) 19:53, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

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Spanish slavery

I have removed "Although the Spanish colonists had held some slaves, they did not succeed in creating a sustainable agricultural economy in the entirety of New Spain, including Texas, Mexico, Central America, and other former Spanish territories in the American Southwest." which implies, apparently, that slavery was necessary for development of a sustainable agricultural economy. This assertion might be true, it seems to have been the case in the Ancient world of Greece and Rome, but there is no identified source. User:Fred Bauder Talk 18:02, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

I also have a concern regarding this opening bit "as the Spanish did not rely on it for labor during their years in Spanish Texas." It's misleading because its indicating that Spanish CHOSE not use slaves rather than it may have been simply too difficult to settle the area: Spanish_Texas#Settlement_difficulties. Anotherpinkfloydinthewall (talk) 22:21, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

This is problematic, too: „Slavery was present in Spanish America and Mexico prior to the arrival of American settlers, but it was not highly developed“ – I think most Carribean (former Spankish colonies) are mostly descendants of former slaves, e. g. Haiti?! A11w1ss3nd (talk) 08:50, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

When Did Whites Lose Power In Texas?

The article currently has a line saying, "After whites regained power in Texas and other southern states in the 1870s..." I wasn't aware that whites had ever lost power in Texas and other Southern states. Who did they lose power to? Pooua (talk) 05:08, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

Recent edits - Democrats / whites

An IP user is changing "whites" in this sentence to "Democrats"

After whites regained power in Texas and other southern states in the 1870s, they imposed a system of legalized racial segregation and white supremacy.

That may be, but to change the information you need a source. What book, newspaper, journal, etc. states that this was by Democrats?–CaroleHenson (talk) 15:17, 27 July 2021 (UTC)