According to historian Neil Foley in his book " The White Scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture ", Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in Texas did marry non-whites, typically without reprisal.
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Colonial officials believed these were inspired by the Stono Rebellion, but historians think the increasingly harsh conditions of slavery since the beginning of the 18th century under the rice and cotton cultures were sufficient cause.
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However, most were not socially considered white, and therefore, according to Historian Neil Foley in the book " The White Scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture ", Mexicans and Mexican-Americans did marry non-whites typically without reprisal.
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When he returned to the United States in 1818, King joined the westward migration of the cotton culture to the Deep South, purchasing property at what would later be known as " King's Bend " between present-day slaveholding families in the state, collectively owning as many as 500.
