<P> "I sometimes shudder at the consequences and think that a large part of America will be Santo Domingonized in 100, or 200 years . The idea of seeing such a country as this overrun by a slave population almost makes me weep . It is in vain to tell a North American that the white population will be destroyed some fifty or eighty years hence by the negroes, and that his daughters will be violated and Butchered by them ." </P> <P> While Austin thought it would be advantageous some day for Texas to phase out of slavery, up until the Texas Revolution, he worked to ensure that his colony's immigrants could bypass the Mexican government's resistance to it . Doing so ensured the population growth and economic development of his colony, which was primarily dependent on the monocropping of cotton and sugar . </P> <P> Arguing that the loss of slaves would be ruinous to the colony, he arranged for his settlers to receive eighty acres of land for each slave they brought with them to Texas . In August 1825, he recommended that the state government allow immigrants to bring their slaves with them through 1840, with the caveat that female grandchildren of the slaves would be freed by the age of 15, and males by age of 25 . His recommendation was rejected . </P> <P> In 1826, when a state committee proposed abolishing slavery outright, 25 percent of the people in Austin's colony were slaves . Austin's colonists, mostly pro-slavery immigrants from the south, threatened to leave Texas if the proposition passed, while prospective Southern immigrants hesitated to come to Texas until slavery was guaranteed there . </P>

Who was the first white man to pass through the land that would someday be called texas