Anahuac Disturbances

Austin. William introduced himself as an attorney of Alabama that was single. Finishing a petition to stay the alcalde, Frank Johnson gave him permission to stay and show him to a little village named Anahuac where he was greeted by norteamericanos. Just some days in he began to work in Anahuac where we needed to learn about the Spanish language and Mexican law. By the same year Travis already had meet and had acquaintances plus he was favor and respected by the townspeople. Yet a problem was faced by William and other common people as a Mexican commander, John Davis Bradburn was sent to protect the village from smuggling and coming immigrants from the U.S. with the Law of April, 1830 but especially Travis had the major problem. Both disagree and fighted with many subjects of rights and civil liberties. Tensions with the Mexican government and American settlers were risen tensions. William was against the Mexican army and the commander John Davis Bradburn. William and citizens were not happy with the arrival of John Bradburn to Anahuac as U.S. constitution meant nothing in Mexican soil. Soldados even went on drunken sprees and assaulted many of the citizens making them outraged with the awful behavior of the soldados. As a result, the riot escalated and Bradburn suspected of Travis and Pat jack. This made local citizens to form a militia even…

One of the cultural myths that I have fallen into would have to be the ‘colorblindness is progress’. I’ve always seen past people and their color, or where they came from. I enclosed myself in the mindset of ‘I’m not racist because I don’t look at people’s skin color or background’. After learning about color blindness, and realizing that I was apart of it, I now know that this is the wrong way to view humans. Color blindness may seem like a good idea, and the intention might be of good intent;…

The Anglo Americans accused Colonel Bradburn of the Mexican army of refusing to return their escaped slaves and of stealing their supplies. The Anglo Americans were also upset that Bradburn and his troops insisted on collecting an import duty on all goods coming into Texas, even goods arriving by ship. There was even some troops trying to collect a duty on me! The conflict erupted in gunfire between Texans and Mexican troops when some ship captains refused to travel to Anahuac to pay the duty.…

their slaves away, this made them favor independence” (Minster). From Mexico’s point of view, the arrival of Americans under the impresario system should have stabilized the territory but instead it made the Mexican government apprehensive. There was concern in Mexico City that under the skin of the American colonists, what they might find beneath the surface, would be a hostile filibusters. “The feelings engendered by these opinions caused Mexican officials to look upon the actions of the…