Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend
- ISBN-10
- 0806149604
- ISBN-13
- 9780806149608
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-02
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Authors
- Ron J. Jackson, Lee Spencer White
Description
"Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--
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