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B is best answer.

(In 1836, 36,000 people, and 5,000 were slaves,according to this site:

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles...

A good question. My guess would be

A.1 percent.

Most of Texas was uninhabited in 1835 the largest city was San Antonio and it was little more than a village. There were very few large plantations that required slave labor to run them. Like many of the future western states Slavery was a major topic for debate, first in Mexico City and later in Washington D.C., but was not widely practiced in Texas.

There is the possibility that slaves were not counted as residents in the census. After all they were not considered residents, or even human by some people. They may have been counted as livestock.

From none to very few even on in to the 1850s there was just no plantations in tx they seem to have stopped at the la border almost