Introduction -- The Adelsverein -- Joseph Graf von Boos-Waldeck -- The plantation -- Germany and Texas in 1843 and 1844 -- The runaways -- Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels -- Friedrich von Wrede -- Das Herrenhaus -- The plantation and agriculture in Fayette County -- Die Katastrophe -- Otto von Roeder -- Nassau-Rosenberg -- The Adelsverein, the plantation, and slavery -- A clouded title -- Postscript -- Appendix A: Boos-Waldeck purchases -- Appendix B: Bourgeois d'Orvanne inventory -- Appendix C: Other inventories -- Appendix D: Slave inventories -- Appendix D: Proclamation concerning slavery -- Appendix F: Descriptions of the Herrenhaus -- A note on sources and abbreviations.