Explanation: During the US Civil War, the state of Texas was one of the states which attempted to secede in order to preserve slavery.
Despite being a slaveowner himself, Sam Houston, who was pivotal in the Texan revolt against Mexico and Texas’s subsequent acceptance into the USA, still valued the Union more than slavery, and was staunchly against secession. Which, while a low bar, is still a bar that the majority of Texan politicians at the time apparently could not likewise clear.
Texas would later join the rest of the seceding states in getting crushed by the antislavery North and reintegrated into the Union under a military administration for nearly a decade.
Explanation: During the US Civil War, the state of Texas was one of the states which attempted to secede in order to preserve slavery.
Despite being a slaveowner himself, Sam Houston, who was pivotal in the Texan revolt against Mexico and Texas’s subsequent acceptance into the USA, still valued the Union more than slavery, and was staunchly against secession. Which, while a low bar, is still a bar that the majority of Texan politicians at the time apparently could not likewise clear.
Texas would later join the rest of the seceding states in getting crushed by the antislavery North and reintegrated into the Union under a military administration for nearly a decade.