Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas

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Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of his escape in 1862. The editors, an astronomer and a French language  teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more depth and historical context to the story.
Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of his escape in 1862.The editors, an astronomer and a French language  teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more depth and historical context to the story.

     
Provides historical and contextual annotations in conjunction with the translation of Belgian astronomer Jean-Charles Houzeau’s account of his escape from Texas Recounts Houzeau’s flight from San Antonio during the Civil War to avoid prosecution for assisting runaway and aiding the escape from prison of Unionist Charles Anderson, who became the 27th governor of Ohio Provides maps and figures that illustrate Houzeau’s path of travel during his escape Uniquely compiled and translated by two experts in the field: a native Belgian astronomer and a native Texan teacher

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Christiaan Sterken

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“This book is extremely well documented and written in a very clear and concise way. … I strongly recommend this book to people interested in history of astronomy, but also to historians who find some interest in the US Civil War and, in a more general way, in the history of the United States.” (Emile Biémont, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Vol. 23 (2), 2020)

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