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100 1  Jackson, Ron,|d1966-|eauthor. 
245 10 Joe, the slave who became an Alamo legend /|cRon J. 
       Jackson, Jr. and Lee Spencer White ; foreword by Phil 
       Collins. 
264  1 Norman :|bUniversity of Oklahoma Press,|c[2015] 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    xxiv, 325 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and 
       index. 
505 0  March 5, 1836 -- Marthasville -- Chattel -- St. Louis -- 
       This Side of the Grave -- Gone to Texas -- Harrisburg -- 
       North Star -- Another Soul Gone -- William Barret Travis -
       - Shadowing Legends -- Dogs of War -- Into the Unknown -- 
       A Passing Comet -- The Wolf -- Besieged -- Fate -- 
       Defining Hour -- The Hourglass -- Between Two Worlds -- 
       March 6, 1836 -- From the Ashes -- "Travis's Negro" -- The
       Estate -- Legendary Journey -- Shadows and Ghosts -- 
       Afterword. 
520 2  "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 ... Joe 
       stood with his master, Lt. 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. Their 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520 2  "Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the
       Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William 
       Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was 
       allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and 
       eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary 
       government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then 
       returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the
       coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. 
       Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched 
       plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, 
       ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court 
       documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the 
       Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a 
       recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but 
       also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the 
       events of the Texas Revolution"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 00 Joe,|d1815- 
600 10 Travis, William Barret,|d1809-1836|xFriends and 
       associates. 
650  0 Enslaved persons|zTexas|vBiography. 
650  0 Legends|zTexas. 
650  0 Fugitive slaves|zTexas|vBiography. 
650  0 African Americans|zTexas|vBiography. 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, 
       NM, OK, TX).|2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American 
       Studies.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.|2bisacsh 
651  0 Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.)|xSiege, 1836. 
651  0 Texas|xHistory|yRevolution, 1835-1836|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  White, Lee Spencer,|d1955-|eauthor. 
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