To Carry That Burden
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In chapter 4 Maria Angela Diaz focuses on a short-lived incident called the Cart War of 1857, which took place in Central Texas. The war consisted of a series of attacks on Mexican-Texan cart drivers who transported goods back and forth between the Gulf Coast ports of Texas and San Antonio. The attacks, likely executed by whites interested in taking over the trade of cart-driving, reveal much about both the racial and class hierarchies that existed in the borderlands of the American South in the antebellum era and the struggles of Mexican Texans to fit into that landscape.
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