In April of 1836, around the time of other well-memorialized events in Texas, a ship sailed through Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, at the state’s southeast tip. It carried a group of at least eight Black men, British subjects from Barbados who’d been granted freedom from slavery. Among them were William Gunsil, Edward Hicks, Samuel Redman, April Sashly, Henry Small, William Thomas, Edward Whittaker, and an unnamed man. They came aboard a ship whose captain, John Taylor, had a scheme to sell them back into bondage.Taylor found interested buyers among some prominent early Texas settlers, including A.B. Hardin, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and Joseph Grigsby, a representative to the Republic of Texas congress. At the time, Grigsby was just establishing his cotton…
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