en.unionpedia.org

Ashworth Act, the Glossary

The Ashworth Act, was an act that was passed by the Texas Senate on December 12, 1840.^[1]

Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

In the British colonies in North America and in the United States before the abolition of slavery in 1865, free Negro or free Black described the legal status of African Americans who were not enslaved. Ashworth Act and free Negro are Pre-emancipation African-American history.

See Ashworth Act and Free Negro

Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

See Ashworth Act and Freedman

Louisiana

Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.

See Ashworth Act and Louisiana

Mexican Texas

Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico.

See Ashworth Act and Mexican Texas

Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

See Ashworth Act and Mexico

Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

See Ashworth Act and Moors

Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

See Ashworth Act and Portuguese people

Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

See Ashworth Act and Republic of Texas