Question

Before the Civil War, only 25 percent of Texas families owned slaves. Yet most nineteenth-century Texans opposed any interference with the institution of slavery because —

Answer 1

Answer:

30%

By the time of annexation a decade later, there were 30,000; by 1860, the census found 182,566 slaves -- over 30% of the total population of the state. Most slaves came to Texas with their owners, and the vast majority lived on large cotton plantations in East Texas.

Answer 2

Before the Civil War, only 25 percent of Texas families owned slaves. Yet most nineteenth-century Texans opposed any interference with the institution of slavery because of the reasons below -

• Texas was a Spanish province in the late 1820s. Only after the arrival of Anglo‑American colonists, the intuition of slavery was introduced in Texas families.
• The encouragement of this slavery was completely based on economic development. One out of four families in Texas had a slave as their worker. During the period of the republic, the extent of slavery expanded exponentially.
• To grow cotton profitably on its large areas of agricultural land, slavery seemed the only way possible for the Anglo‑American colonists.