(After we posted the story of our friend Joe Cuellar's ancestor John F. Webber, a white settler who was married to a black slave and had a family in the early days of Texas, one of our readers informed us that the story of his fight against discrimination was in a book called "The Evolution of a State" by Noah Smithwick published in 1900. We searched for it and found it on the Internet. We post it here to give our three readers an idea of the deep-seated prejudice that Webber and his family confronted.)
