Across the Rio to freedom : U.S. Negroes in Mexico /

The continual redrawing of the boundaries between the United States, Texas, and Mexico in the nineteenth century prompted slaves to view the border as a symbol of liberation. When the border was first fixed by treaty in 1819, enslaved Texans attached no particular significance to it because slavery...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Schwartz, Rosalie, 1936-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	El Paso : Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, [1974], ©1975.
Series:	Southwestern studies (El Paso, Tex.) ; monograph no. 44.
Subjects:	Slavery > Mexico. Black people > Mexico. Noirs > Mexique. Black people. Slavery. Mexico.