Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil. —Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.
@AfricanArchives Vincente Guerrero, this half black Mexican was the president of Mexico in 1829, he abolished slavery
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives How is he black ? Real question ?
@YungMajorMoney @SHOWDYBABA_S @AfricanArchives Padre (father) Vicente Guerrero, President of 🇲🇽 Mexico
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives Was he really half-black, or is this another one of those black history-rewriting fantasies?
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives Please show the real portrait of Vincete, not this whitewash version. He was Black.
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives Is there a new finding of his ancestry ?
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives Not mixed from Slavery. Mixed from Spanish Conquerors
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives Ok. That makes sense.
@YungMajorMoney @AfricanArchives It was because of the other half.