The myth of Alamo gets the history all wrong - The Washington Post

… Given that its defenders were fighting to form what became the single most militant slave nation in history, that men who fought at the Alamo like Jim Bowie and William Travis traded enslaved people, and Austin, the "Father of Texas," spent years fighting to preserve slavery from the attacks of Mexican abolitionists, it is clear that rather than a courageous stand for liberty, the White men fighting at the Alamo were battling to own people of color...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/10/myth-alamo-gets-history-all-wrong/