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Chainfire

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3. If I were alive at the time, one of the people killed in the Alamo, would have been a first cousin.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2023, 11:58 AM

Mar 2023

He was the chief engineer of the group. (Green Bonito Jamison) His family were plantation owners from Northern Alabama and he had gone to Texas for cheap land to grow cotton, no doubt, using slaves. The whole family from N. Al. had become wealthy on the backs of enslaved men and women and on land granted for Rev. War service, or "bought" from the local Native Americans.

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Today marks the 187th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 OP

This truck better stay away from Texas. keithbvadu2 Mar 2023 #1

Typical of Texas, the Alamo story is one big racist myth Doc Sportello Mar 2023 #2

If I were alive at the time, one of the people killed in the Alamo, would have been a first cousin. Chainfire Mar 2023 #3