The Republic of Cotton

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Arts, Cabeza De Vaca, The Alamo, Battle Of Medina, San Antonio Missions, Texas, Mexico, Gutierrez-magee, Education, Comanches, Apaches, Society & Culture, San Antonio, Courses, Philosophy, History

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Episode 3 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Engines of Texas History. When they hosted the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936, Dallas boosters had good reason to rename their football stadium and associated bowl game based on a bad pun. The "Cotton Bowl" was a nod to the unmatched roll that "King Cotton" had played in shaping the demographics and politics of Texas, where it constituted as much as 90% of the output of the state for parts of the nineteenth century. But it’s a legacy that Texa...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Engines of TechSanity.
0:07.5	Episode 3, The Republic of Cotton.
0:10.5	I'm Brandon Sear.
0:15.6	On September 30, 1830, Juan Martin de Veramendi appeared before the governor, secretary of state, and speaker of
0:23.4	the Coahuila and Texas state legislature. The 52-year-old Beramendi had just three weeks prior
0:29.3	been chosen as the vice governor of Coahuila, and he was accompanied on this occasion by his
0:33.4	family, including his 19-year-old daughter, Ursula. A native of San Antonio,
0:38.8	Berramendi had done well for himself as a merchant, an occasional contrabandista, in the years
0:43.6	following the Battle of Medina, when he and many of his fellow Tejano's had taken exile
0:48.0	in Nackettish, Louisiana. In Louisiana, Berramendi and other Tejanos had deepened their pre-existing commercial connections
0:55.7	with the Anglo-American frontier economy and became convinced of the advantages of bringing
1:00.4	Anglo-American immigrants and Anglo-American capital back into their impoverished province.
1:06.9	In fact, it had been Berramendi, along with Erasmus Sagan, who had met Stephen F. Austin in
1:11.8	Nackettish in 1821 with the news that his petition to settle an Anglo colony in the state
1:16.7	had been approved.
1:19.2	Yet Berramendi had never been as personally invested in the drive to bring Anglo-Americans
1:23.8	to Texas as he was at this moment, because standing next to him, or perhaps next to his
1:29.6	daughter, Ursula, was a 34-year-old Anglo named Jim Bowie. Betamendi had arranged for Jim Bowie to be
1:37.2	granted Mexican citizenship by no less than the legislature of Qualile, Texas, by vouching for him
1:42.6	personally.
1:46.4	Why was Bermendi doing this?
1:50.0	How did Jim Bui fast-track himself into the ranks of Guaweila and Texas' first family so quickly?
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