Table of Contents:
  • Editor's note
  • Preface
  • Prologue : The Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States is finally passed
  • Goin' to Texas : Texas in the American imagination and politics, 1821-1841
  • And Tyler too
  • We cannot carry Virginia for you : political earthquake, 1843-1844
  • Texas will be annexed
  • Prolific of evil and pregnant with bloody fruit
  • Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
  • Their heinous sin : the long shadow of Texas
  • Conclusion : An element of overwhelming ruin to the republic
  • Bibliographic essay.