Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821--1865

by Sean M. Kelley

Historians have long believed that the frontier shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only slave society to take root under Mexican sovereignty -- made replication of eastern plantation culture extremely difficult and complicated. By tracing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136875
• ISBN13: 9780807136874
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"