oof

They want to bring back slavery. Republicans want to own slaves and say Democrats own the slaves.

Well, that's a good question. Per the text of the meme, if that is a fact and that fact is taught, then that essentially fills the "Real history" criteria. The question is, what will they be omitting in their history?

Wasn't Texas a part of Mexico at that time?

Apparently 1836 was the year Texas split from Mexico.

So choosing that date is also suggestive of a certain view of Texas history that regards Mexico as an adversary

I mostly asked purely because I was curious if that was a policy encouraged by the Mexicans (which I highly doubt, given they were mostly Catholic and almost certainly opposed slavery, though I make this statement conjecturally and without fact-checking it) or a bid to attract Protestant, pro-U.S immigrants to swell support for the movement to separate from Mexico.

The timeline of Mexican abolitionism is interesting and no doubt played a big role in Texas going its own way.

And I’d imagine slaves fleeing south and not being returned helped fuel Texan anti-Mexican feeling.

More things that a couple minutes of research reveals is problematic about this “1836 project.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/underground-railroad-mexico-escaped-slaves

Most interesting. My reading queue is full, at the moment (with Star Wars novels, of all things), but I'm making a note to find a good book on the political environment at the time in Mexico and how religion affected Mexican attitudes towards slavery. It'll probably be highly interesting.