Two days after the attack on Fort Velasco by Anglo colonists, a slave on the Sterling McNeel plantation, was shot trying to escape.
Date: June 28, 1832
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.181491000000
Longitude: -95.669788000000
Longitude: -95.669788000000
Citation:
Mary Boddie, Thunder on the Brazos, Taylor Publishing Company, 1978, 12.
Event Type:
Date: June 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A force of 60 Texas volunteers captures four Indians--two Caddos, chief Canoma and his son, and two Cherokees--near the Three Forks of the Little River, six miles southeast of Belton. Mistakenly believing them to be horse thieves, they vote to execute the four men.
Tribe: Caddos, Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.970328000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Longitude: -97.348480000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 25.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 207-08.
Event Type:
Date: October 17, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835, Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Roughly 100 enslaved persons are whipped in the aftermath of a slave revolt in Brazoria near the lower Brazos River. An unknown number of enslaved persons are hanged and whipped to death.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.168988000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Longitude: -95.431910000000
Citation:
Sean Kelley, ""Mexico in His Head": Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810-1860." Journal of Social History, vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2004), 716.
Event Type:
Date: Early June 1842
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Seeking to run away with an enslaved woman from Texana, a Mexican man is pursued by local residents and lynched on the Lavaca River, near present-day Edna.
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 28.969422000000
Longitude: -96.624449000000
Longitude: -96.624449000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 15, 1842
Event Type:
Date: September 29, 1854
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved woman owned by M. Duval is whipped by overseer A. M. Davidson and dies shortly afterwards.
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 30.274825000000
Longitude: -97.747896000000
Longitude: -97.747896000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 148.
The Texas State Times, Vol. 1, No. 54, October 7, 1854.
Event Type:
Date: August 10, 1855
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) An Indian youth, possibly Tonkawa, looking for food is taken by local residents outside of town and shot. His body is subsequently burned.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.289084000000
Longitude: -98.898222000000
Longitude: -98.898222000000
Citation:
Hunter’s Frontier Times Magazine, May 1927.
San Antonio Ledger, Vol. 5, No. 44, October 13, 1855.
The Texas State Times, Vol. 2, No. 38, August 25, 1855.
Event Type:
Date: 1856
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A hired, enslaved person is whipped to death by the manager of Andrew M. Echols’ sawmill in Burleson County.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.532733000000
Longitude: -96.695107000000
Longitude: -96.695107000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 148.
Event Type:
Date: September 5, 1856
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three enslaved men are hanged for involvement in a plot to kill all the white men in Columbus, seize those men’s wives, and run away to Mexico.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.705949000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 13-14.
State Gazette, Vol. 8, No. 4, September 13, 1856.
Wendell G. Addington, "Slave Insurrections in Texas." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1950), 415-16.
Event Type:
Date: May 1859
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man is burned by locals after confessing to killing and burning his master in Tarrant County.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.870958000000
Longitude: -97.215244000000
Longitude: -97.215244000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 105.
Event Type:
Date: May/June 1859
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved person is burned by locals for undisclosed reasons.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.710494000000
Longitude: -94.933152000000
Longitude: -94.933152000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 105.
Event Type:
Date: July 23, 1859
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man is taken out of jail and hanged by a mob in present-day Sulphur Springs after being arrested for attempted rape of a white woman.
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.141212000000
Longitude: -95.597959000000
Longitude: -95.597959000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 105.
The Matagorda Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 51, July 23, 1859.
Event Type:
Date: March 3, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African) An enslaved boy named Wilson was found drowned on the Colorado River, having been killed by another enslaved person.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.256434000000
Longitude: -97.741390000000
Longitude: -97.741390000000
Citation:
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 31, March 10, 1860.
The Daily Ledger and Texan, Vol. 1, No. 180, March 16, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: May-June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man named George is sentenced to death on June 29th after being found guilty of inciting a rebellion in Burleson County.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.531936000000
Longitude: -96.693402000000
Longitude: -96.693402000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 12, June 5, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Late May 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two enslaved men and an enslaved woman involved in the murder of Mr. Kinkaid and his family are hanged without trial in Orangeville in Fannin County.
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.593849000000
Longitude: -96.149400000000
Longitude: -96.149400000000
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 23.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 43, June 2, 1860.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 46, June 23, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 37, June 2, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 12, June 5, 1860.
Wendell G. Addington, "Slave Insurrections in Texas." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1950), 420.
Event Type:
Date: May 31, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man named Dick is given fifty lashes by a committee in Plano for involvement in inciting a slave rebellion.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.018704000000
Longitude: -96.703363000000
Longitude: -96.703363000000
Citation:
The Dallas Herald, Vol. 8, No. 50, June 13, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man is caught and hanged for rape of a white woman and attempted rape of another in Upshur County, roughly 35 miles from Titus County.
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.728291000000
Longitude: -94.943388000000
Longitude: -94.943388000000
Citation:
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 46, June 23, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A enslaved man named Joe is found guilty of burning down the Cameron Centinel the November prior and is hanged on July 18th.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.849947000000
Longitude: -96.976491000000
Longitude: -96.976491000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 13, June 12, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved girl is whipped for several hours for stealing money from a man named Griffin in Coryell County.
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.436321000000
Longitude: -97.749566000000
Longitude: -97.749566000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 16, July 3, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Settler vigilantes from Waxahachie hang an enslaved man at Red Oak Creek, accusing the man of conspiring to murder whites in the town.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.468795000000
Longitude: -96.777103000000
Longitude: -96.777103000000
Citation:
William W. White, “The Texas Slave Insurrection of 1860,” The Southwestern Quarterly 52 (January 1949): 263.
Event Type:
Date: July-August 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African) An enslaved man is hung on Science Hill in Henderson County for unknown reasons.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.028100000000
Longitude: -95.940985000000
Longitude: -95.940985000000
Citation:
The Navarro Express, Vol. 1, No. 38, August 11, 1860. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth179257/m1/2/
Event Type: