If we do in fact ""remember the Alamo,"" it is largely thanks to
one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the
commanding officer's slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What
Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas
Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But
who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all
remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical
detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White
have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in
the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master,
Lieutenant Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early
hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle's
last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar
and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the
revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident
candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched
through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives,
ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their
decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe's biography,
alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the
younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist
narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary
trailblazer Daniel Boone. This book traces Joe's story from his
birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery - which, in a
grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans' battle
for independence - to his eventual escape and disappearance into
the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend
recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our
view of events central to the emergence of Texas.
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