4 For detailed, documented study of the events summarized in this and
the paragraphs following on the question of slavery in Texas, see E. C.
Barker, The
Life
of
Stephen
F.
Austin,
243-250; E. C. Barker, "The Influ-
ence of Slavery in the Colonization of Texas," in The
Southwestern
His
-
torical
Quarterly,
XXVIII, 1-33. An earlier study is that of Lester G.
Bugbee, "Slavery in Early Texas," in Political
Science
Quarterly,
XIII,
389-412, 648-668.
