In 1691. a black bugler accompanied Domingo Teran on the second Spanish missionary expedition to convert east Texas Indians. By the 1790sonly 20 years after Crispus Attucks. a fugitive slave. was killed in the Boston Massacre. one of the first to die in the American colonies struggle for freedom from Englandblacks made up at least 15 percent of the population in what would become Texas. Prior to the end of Mexican rule over Texas in 1836. most free black immigrants came to Texas as farmerslike Emanuel Hardin of Brazorla County and Jean Baptiste Maturia of Nacogdoches in the 1820s. A few pursued other occupations. In 1831. for example.
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