This "protest" was an incentive for every Texan to be pissed, regardless of how they felt about slavery.
It really wasn't very complicated.
Recollections from my grandfather on some of his uncle's were that they never even seen a black person till after the war.
Apparently, subsistence farming and fishing didn't allow them a lot of time to "get out".
It was those post war meetings which drove their previously untainted sentiment...
