they'll ignore it.

one of several. Nothing as complex as a war is about 1 thing. Simple thinking is the purview of FOX Snooze viewers. We (DUers) are better than that.

I have always held that the whole Texas thing was engineered by those whose intent was ultimately to add Texas to the United States of America. Ironically it not only did that but added a great part of the west. Now, those Texicans may have wanted to add another slave state to the nation, I'll grant that's possible.

This link is to a 1998 online discussion about the very subject.
This citation is the last post:

http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/ccbn/dewitt/adp/central/warroom/warroom15.html
1030/98

Santa Anna did outlaw slavery in Texas, however, he did not outlaw it in Mexico proper. THey were still using Indian labor to work in the mines and therefore, he cannot be the Abe Lincoln of Texas. Furthermore, at least thirty of the Alamo defenders were not Southerners. They were from such great slaveholding states as Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Pennslyvannia. Thirty more of them were not even Americans to begin with. They were Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Danish. The Irishmen were themselves enslaved in their own country during that time period. And what about the Tejanos? In any case, I find the argument that soldiers during the Revolution were fighting for slavery to be entirely without merit. Of course, that's just my opinion...

Respectfully,
Brady Hutchison