{"id":17,"date":"2015-05-25T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredmcghee.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:54:42","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fredmcghee.com\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fred L. McGhee’s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>The Black Crop: Slavery and Slave Trading in Nineteenth Century Texas<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Purchase on Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download Key Figures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0997221801
ISBN-10:<\/strong> 978-0997221800
# of Pages:<\/strong> 396
Publisher:<\/strong> Fidelitas Publishing (January 27, 2016)
Binding:<\/strong> Softcover<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Book Description:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Commonly thought of as the epicenter of American rugged individualism, the modern state of Texas would not exist without the institution of slavery and the slave trade. The 1836 Texas “Revolution” was largely based on protecting and preserving slavery and served as an important precursor for the American Civil War. The 1845 annexation of Texas engendered feverish debates about the role of slavery in the American republic and its relationship to westward expansion. Slave trading\u2014both internal and external\u2014was a basic and underappreciated component of the economic development of Texas, and enriched many northern business elites such as Charles Morgan, who provided the first regular steamship service into Texas, Elisha Marshall Pease, who served as a two-term Texas governor in the 1850’s and during Reconstruction, as well as William Marsh Rice, for whom Rice University is named. This book re-imagines and re-writes the history of Texas from a modern African-American perspective and asks provocative questions about the role of the Lone Star State in the meaning of American freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Austin’s Montopolis Neighborhood<\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Purchase on Amazon.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SBN:<\/strong> 9781467131766
# of Pages:<\/strong> 128
Publisher:<\/strong> Arcadia Publishing
Binding:<\/strong> Softcover
# of Images:<\/strong> 200 Black and White<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Book Description:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Montopolis is a multiethnic neighborhood located approximately four miles southeast of downtown Austin. The area was long visited and occasionally occupied by various Texas Indian nations; the first documented European or American to settle here was Jessie C. Tannehill, who in 1830 built a cabin and townsite and gave the new community its pretentious name. Instead of establishing a permanent presence in Montopolis, however, subsequent European colonizers looked a few miles upriver to the new settlement of Waterloo, later to be called Austin. Rural and sparsely populated, the remainder of the 19th century saw the Montopolis area used primarily for plantation agriculture. In the 1920s, succeeding waves of Mexican migrants helped establish the modern neighborhood that exists today. Between the 1950s and 1970s, the City of Austin annexed Montopolis, although the area retains much of its rural character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin’s Montopolis Neighborhood Book Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n