The digitized primary sources on the Texas Slavery Project provide access to hundreds of letters, newspapers articles, legislative decrees, and diplomatic correspondence during the 1820s through the 1840s.
The primary sources are organized by document type:
These documents are from the 1898 collection by H.P.H Gammel, and include all the laws that touched in slavery, agriculture, and taxation in Texas during the years between 1821 and 1845.
The documents in this section come from the 1908 publication edited by George Garrison, and include correspondence of the Republic of Texas government with foreign governments--and among Texas diplomats--that concerned slavery.
This collection of letters documents the workings of James Perry's cotton plantation in Brazoria County, Texas.
These documents come from the pages of the Telegraph & Texas Register, a newspaper from Houston, and includes articles on slavery, cotton markets, and the annexation of Texas to the United States.
These articles come from the Civilian & Galveston Gazette, and include advertisements for slaves, news on sugar and cotton production, the passage of laws in Galveston restricting movement of African Americans, and the debate over annexation.