African American slavery in Texas __________.
A. was never permitted under Mexican law
B. was illegal in Mexico after 1829, but Texans evaded the law by getting special exemptions and later reclassifying their slaves as indentured servants
C. had briefly existed in the 1820s, but was permanently ended by a provision of the Law of April 1830
D. was a very tiny percentage of the overall labor system, since there were only about 200 slaves in Texas in 1835
Question 2
One important issue on which Tejanos and Anglo Texans strongly agreed was that __________.
A. Texas needed to be detached from Coahuila and become a separate state
B. slavery should be abolished in Texas
C. a new constitution for Mexico was badly needed
D. all Indians should be forced to leave Texas
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