Reply #32: Texas, a country founded on greed and welching on deals [View All]

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The Mexican government wanted settlers for it's northern province, so it offered a three-point deal to potential settlers from the United States: speak Spanish, convert to Catholicism and give up your slaves.

Santa Ana did abrogate the Constitution of 1824, but the real issue was slavery. The great Republic of Texas came into being more as a dishonest unwillingness to give up slaves they'd promised to give up than for any other reason. The birth of that Republic was based on the racist greed of abusing fellow humans and the dishonorable breaking of a specific deal.