| Summary: | This article reevaluates the role played by Erasmo Seguín as a deputy to the Second Constitutional Congress in the union of the provinces of Coahuila and Texas, a process in which he has generally been assigned a minor role. This article is based on Seguín’s correspondence with his family, with the businessman Stephen Austin and with the local and provincial authorities. It argues that, in the years immediately following Mexico’s independence, there was no reason to assume that Anglo-Americans would come to dominate the development of Texas, as well as that Seguín’s work at the congress was aimed at forging a future for Texas within the Mexican nation, in Mexican rather than Anglo-American terms.
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