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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend (Paperback)
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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend (Paperback)
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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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