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Many people of color began to rise up, and get the support they needed from their white neighbors through petitioning for their right to stay in Texas.This land to them is what they called home.Many people of color such as John and Charity Bird, Allen Dimery, Diana Leonard, James Richardson, Robert Thompson, Joseph Tate, and William Goyens (who all were free slaves, partly black, and/or were of color) were among the petitioners that fought for their right to stay in the Republic of Texas.