“What made the American project so compelling was its substantial debate around the role of religion, its defiant insistence on not just religious freedom but freedom from religion — the very freedom that German immigrants were searching for when they moved to Texas.”
Allen AC
Texas history can't ignore freethinking Germans who opposed slavery | Opinion www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Politicians don't want schools to teach the real story of German Texans — radical freethinkers who settled the Hill Country and opposed slavery, writes the editorial board.