Texas

slave-owners or supporters of slavery. They emigrated to the Mexican province of Texas on invitation of the Mexican government, which wanted to increase their population.

Mexico offered them citizenship if they converted to Catholicism and freed their slaves. They newly dubbed “Texians” didn’t want to convert to Catholicism, and really, really didn’t want to free their slaves.

Mexico sent an Army unit to enforce Mexican law, which prohibited slavery. And the volunteers defending the Texians holed up in the Alamo, and the rest is history.

The people who died at the Alamo weren’t fighting against repression; they were defending the repressive abomination of slavery. They were the villains, not the heroes. The “brave last stand at the Alamo” is literal white-washing.