
@NfNitLoop ("Cody C. #BLM") wrote:
More things they don't teach you in #Texas history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1850
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@161_BKLYN ("Bloc from the Block Ⓐ") wrote:
Texas gave up that land so they could keep slavery. When Texas wanted to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state, federal law in the United States, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30' parallel north.