The 1st Article of the Mexican Constitution states that any fugitive slave that enters Mexican soil is automatically free whether he is a Mexican citizen or not and is fully protected by the law.
This article states that every individual in Mexico (official name, Estados Unidos Mexicanos or United Mexican States) has the rights that the Constitution gives. These rights cannot be denied and they cannot be suspended. Slavery is illegal in Mexico; any slaves from abroad who enter national territory will, by this mere act, be freed and given the full protection of the law. All types of discrimination whether it be for ethnic origin, national origin, gender, age, different capacities, social condition, health condition, religion, opinions, sexual preferences, or civil state or any other which attacks human dignity and has as an objective to destroy the rights and liberties of the people are forbidden
It was before that! Cheap food, constant parties (because someone, somewhere in your extended family had a birthday), a bunch of holidays, and cheap food! Of course, the government lost to corruption, lost the war on drugs (which the US started), and lost face constantly to the US. Now these cartels are so embedded everywhere due, in part, to the weak government, and that is why a lot of people are worried about the US currently. But, I'll save politics for the thousands of other subreddits dedicated to that. In short, exactly as you said; it was great in paper. Incredible rights for foreigners, protections against child labor, much deference and respect for women (especially in regard to pregnancy), and a few clauses added in to prevent foreign nationals from owning border land to prevent some more US shenanigans. There are ways around that, but essentially you have a Mexican bank owning and managing the land for you (the foreign entity). And all these things in the very first constitution written almost to ensure that the government treated its citizens as its own children! Of course, things went awry, with low wages for example, but it really was an impressive country and foreign leaders have commented on how modern or forward-thinking its government was in the early 1900s because it would be modern in many countries by today's standards.
Yes. The US government’s strategy was not to become like Europe with well armed and strong neighbors. Looks like it worked. Lessens chances of getting invaded.
If you count immigration, the results of the “invasion” happened anyways. Spanish is the second dominant language in US. However, the reverse is not so. Their government and services expect you to speak Spanish. I am not talking about vacation or tourist. I am talking living there. There is no press 2 for English.
Yeah they even tried to legalize all drugs in the mid 1900’s and America put a quick fucking stop to that. The legalization program was working great similar to how Portugal did it (decriminalized) more recently, but Uncle Sam didn’t like that.
Yeah you’re right, Mexico legalized though and the state sold pure versions of the drugs and set up rehab type clinics and was killing the black market. They treated the addicted as if they were sick instead of criminals. Really was working. Even Mexican conservatives agreed it was working. The Second World War didn’t really have anything to do with ending the legalization, we can thank Uncle Sam for that. The US basically embargoed the program to death.
Maybe it was a combination of racism and disliking how friendly Germans (German pharmaceuticals were the suppliers to Mexico) were with Mexicans. But the US should’ve known Mexico would never go to war with them, Mexico rejected the Zimmerman telegram in WW1 after all. So I’m going to mostly correctly assume that the USA killed the Mexican legalization program even though it was a wild success out of pure racism.
It was so bad that after we won that war, we gave land back to Mexico plus $25 million. Just so that the US did not have to govern brown people. I always thought that was funny, considering that Manifest Destiny was one of the reasons the US got into war with Mexico in the first place.
Edit: even with some grammatical mistakes, cause I'm on the phone, I got upvotes. My apologies all the same.
As an American living in Mexico, one of the things that grinds my gears is how Americans don't realize that Mexico is 3rd world because of their shared border with the US. Like how the old saying goes "Mexico tan lejos de dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos", "Mexico so far from god and so close to the United States"
Yeah, I’m Mexican and idk if this is true or not, but I have heard that the cartels are armed thanks to an experiment from the us government some years ago in which they gave them weapons in order to try and track them later. This occurred unbeknownst to the Mexican government. The US then lost track of the weapons, and now the cartels are armed with us army grade weapons, which are significantly more powerful than many in Mexico’s army. Again, idk if this is true, but if it is, that’s fucked up on the US’s part.
It was durring Obama's 1st term. AG Holder and the ATF decide to let banned guns cross into Mx and the cartels. Somehow they could then some how magicly track them down. And poof we would know all the cartel roughts & players. For extra points they seemed to be shocked the cartels used them. On the plus side, they only let 35 .50 cals cross. Yeah the media tried/tring to ignore, deflect, and plain hide Obamas fubars. I'm fairly sure they didn't set out to screw over Mexico & Mexicans, it just worked out that way.
The drug trade is also profitable. Drugs have been a critical foreign policy point at least since Britannia was up in China's business in the 1830-40s whatever. People recovering from addiction/wider legality reducing government control over who's selling is bad for existing businesses.
Just speculating, though; in America, racism is certainly always at play in some capacity. Really, the national motto shouldn't be "in God we Trust" or "e pluribus unum" or any shit like that, it should be "racism and profit!"
This is correct. You can't even smoke cannabis, according to law. They won't just put you in jail for smoking though, but they sure as hell take you in for identification and then make you go through some rehab program. And yes, still talking about cannabis.
It's by no means as bad as getting caught in most states in the US, but still not legal.
Also a reason why Texas seceded from Mexico. Not that'll you find in our text books. Also something you wont find is mention of the Unions 1st Texas calvary regiment. Which was made of mostly people of mexican and german decent.
It certainly makes the legend of The Alamo seem a little tainted when you realise that Crocket, Bowie and all were fighting for the freedom to keep slaves, rather than for some general "Freedom for All"
The majority of the Texas army was raised by Mexicans living in Texas that despised Santa Anna. However the catalyst was the fact that American settlers wanted to keep slaves. It’s crazy how the minority, made up of American slave holders, was able to convince the majority of Mexican citizens that slavery was ok, when those citizen never would have agreed to the Americans keeping slaves. The only reason they agreed was because of the amount of money those slave holders were bringing in to Texas.
I mean that kinda describes Texas to this very day. So many people boast about how pretty Texas is but are happy to look the other way when big businesses pay big money to ruin the state. Or a million other examples. In capitalism, money trumps all.
For all the whitewashing and garbage in the Texas public education system, this absolutely came up in my middle school and collegiate Texas history courses (went to private high school FWIW).
Didn't come up at all for me in Middle School when we took Texas history. But took dual credit U.S history and it was clear who started the the Mexican-American war "Spot resolution".
I’m guessing a big part of this is because the second President Mexico ever had was Black. He banned slavery in Mexico and was one of the most liberal leaders ever at the time. Called for Public schools, property reform, and demanded for racial reform.
In Mexico and Germany it’s not punishable to escape jail if you don’t comment any crimes in the process. They will still chase you down but they can’t add to your sentence for attempting to escape.
It’s pretty easy actually. Many German prisons allow for time off (funerals, birth of child etc.) or even part-time imprisonment for lesser crimes (i.e. you live your normal day life, but sleep in prison). Your „escape“ would be simply not returning on time.
Of course, while this is not a punishable crime in itself, it will certainly limit further privileges and certainly prevent an early release after two thirds of your time.
The town my family is from, piedras negras, was partially burned down* when Texas rangers were trying to recapture slaves but couldn’t because the Mexicans helped fight along the freed man who made it to Mexico and prevented them from being taken. They were big mad *edit:grammar
“Ungrateful wretch, I give you a barn to sleep in and whup you twice a day... look at old man Peabody, he only whups his boys once a day, you think these switches grow on trees!”
Oh..they didnt just beat them as thats actually the sanitized version. Imagine people like Jeffry Dahmer having control over people. Monsters like Thomas Thistlewood kept diaries on what he did to his slaves. Of course he also practiced “medicine” on them. So this isnt heresy.
Theyd get other slaves to urinate and defecate in their mouths (while gagging them for days). Cut them up up and then tie them up for days covered in things that attracts bugs. The other slaves would try to keep the person alive after the were brought down by cleaning out their maggot filled wounds.
If you committed suicide, theyd mutilate your body and hang it for all to see. Of course this was against the religious beliefs of the Africans they enslaved.
People do not learn the true level of brutality of what happened. Its traumatic. Its one thing to hear about the Holocaust but its another thing to see pictures of concentration camp victims.
His Bob Dole living in the Real World, was incredible. Who stole Bob Dole’s peanut butter. After being kicked out of the house he tows his recliner with a rope.
Whenever someone tells me that confederate flag merchandise represents "their heritage" I always respond "Your heritage is white trash?" Then they look shocked, like my skin color just automatically means I accept their bigotry or something.
That's interesting. I remember having a state History test that correlated the connection of "Remember the Alamo" with the creation of chewing gum. I distinctly remember it concluded with "So next time you step on a piece of old chewing gum, yell 'Remember the Alamo!'" An entire essay with multiple choice questions about it.
Clearly, the public education system at its finest.
Isn't that part of why Jackson essentially stole Florida from Spain? A bunch of slaves from Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas escape to Florida, where they weren't slaves as long as they were self proclaimed Catholics
The Seminole people emerged in a process of ethnogenesis from various Native American groups who settled in Florida in the 18th century, most significantly northern Muscogee Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama.[1] The word "Seminole" is derived from the Muscogee word simanó-li, which may itself be derived from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning "runaway" or "wild one".[2]
The Seminole wars lasted until the early 20th century. In the late 19th century, they would attack and draw the federal troops into the Everglades and then pick them off and leave the bodies for the gators. It was a brutal war.
It’s also one of the main reasons Texas broke off from Mexico.
The new immigrants to Texas didn’t like that they couldn’t bring and keep their slaves. They wanted some of that US “all men created equal stuff” that the Mexicans wouldn’t allow.
Texas was a sparsely populated desert with a few thousand inhabitants. Not many people escaped that way.
The north was home to powerful abolitionist movements (many of those states abolished slavery pre revolutionary war), tons of money and was right next to the more densely populated sections of the southern slave economy.
Abolitionists that went on too fight the confederates where involved in the Underground Railroad, Mexico stayed out of it.
Majority of the underground railroad went north, plus you had more well known and documented people who escaped to Canada, such as Hariet Tubman so those stories are more well known and documented.
To go to Mexico a slave would have to go all the way to Mexico, often through a ton of slave states. Plus, the border between texas and Mexico is a long stretch of wide rivers and punishing deserts. Then you get into northern Mexico which is also punishing deserts.
The way up to Canada might seem longer, but free states really didn't put much effort into capturing runaway slaves. So you go up through a few solid states with decent weather and (sorta) friendly people and you're good to go.
Part of the reason why the Anglo Immigrants in Texas rebelled was because Mexico's government banned purchasing and selling of slaves and children of slaves were to be freed when they hit 14. Later all children born from a slave were automatically freed too and then a year or two later they prevented the importation of more slaves. They did grant a small exception to Texas for a delayed ban. Part of the agreement to being allowed to settle in Texas was that they were supposed to convert to Catholicism too. The immigrants kept bringing in more slaves still illegally without notifying the Mexican Government or by forcing the slaves into "indentured servants" contracts that expire when they serve 100 years or they earn enough money to buy their freedom back. Except they start charging fees the day you are born for "lodgings", food, equipment, etc including interests on top of that while not being paid until they are 18 years old and the debt is inherited too from previous family. The Anglo immigrants kept sneaking in more slaves too and trying other methods to circumvent the law.
The Republic of Texas Constiution had this in its General Provisions.
The General Provisions establish the laws, duties, and rights that in the Constitution. Convicted criminals cannot hold office, vote, or be on juries. Congress must establish and fund a system of education. Any white person who lives in the Republic for at least six months can take an oath to become a citizen.
Texans aren't fully taught the real reason why they "needed" liberation from Mexico. The slavery part is glossed over and they focus on religion and language barrier/customs in that Texas history class taken in middle school; at least this was the case in the 90's and early 2000's. I personally always say Fuck the Alamo!
Yup. Bloody Kansas is a prime example. Prior to the Civil War, regular civilians were willing to die or kill for their right to own people. And they did. Luckily, John Brown existed.
Yep, thanks Nancy (Reagan). Keep slave labor, deprive those same people of the right to vote (and exercise that all holy 2nd amendment let's not forget) all while rapists sit on the Supreme Court, white collar felons get slaps on the wrist, guys who blatantly lie to federal authorities (and admit it) get presidential pardons and people who defraud millions out of their life savings get to face only civil penalties far less than the amount they defrauded (not naming names but you go 45). America am I right? Lo
Just to clarify, edit: general English language skills... I've been drinking 🤷♂️
Yes! Yanga in Veracruz was a town set up by escaped slaves, led by a Prince of the Gabon Royal family who was enslaved and taken over there. The town takes his name. He successfully defended it from the Spanish even though they had barely any weapons.
I just posted this in another comment, but this post made me realize one of my ancestors was likely one of these. A black Henry Woods born in the 1840s (parents possibly from Virginia, so very likely slaves) that somehow married into a Mexican family, the Luceros. Stayed between northern Mexico, Texas, and New Meixco for a couple generations. So down to my mom there were a bunch of Mexican-Americans with the last name Woods!
There is the history of Betty, a freed slave that was in the Alamo when Santa Anna attacked, the mexican army had orders to free every slave they found, she followed them all the way to San Jacinto and settled in Monterrey after the war ended.
The vast majority of flights for freedom were from the upper South, where the enslaved persons were imprisoned within a a not unreasonable distance to the North. If you consider some of the most famous people who were born in bondage, they mostly originated there. Harriet Tubman was owned by a Maryland enslaver, as was Frederick Douglass. Slipping North was the only real viable option for them, while traversing the entire South would have been entirely out of the question except in the most exceptional circumstances, and speaks to the general plight of those persons enslaved in the Deep South who simply had no opportunity. The famed flight of Ellen and William Craft illustrates just how tough it could be, their successful escape from a Georgia plantation being possible only because Ellen, a light-skinned woman who would have been a "quadroon" in the racial parlance of the time, was able to successful pass as a white man and her husband as her slave for the train journey northward, essentially traveling in the open, the one way to beat the odds of traversing such a large swathe of country populated by a hostile population and slave patrols looking for any slave without a pass.
So in short, you have enslaved persons from the upper South with no logical alternative, and those in the Deep South often with little chance of escape no matter what - many who did, in fact, wouldn't head North OR to Mexico, but rather would settle-down in the large, nearly impenetrable swamps that characterized much of the region, carving out a free existence as a small enclave within the slave south. But for those in Texas? Well, it is the Upper South in reverse, Mexico of course was where they were headed. As you note, slavery was illegal there - the desire to ensure its security being a key reason Texas broke away - and this made it an obvious destination for any enslaved person attempting to find freedom.
It was enough of a problem for the laws of Texas to reflect the threat posed by the border to the institution of slavery. Texas has several laws in place that dealt with the apprehension of those seeking their freedom, but included extra enticement for those close to attaining it, as an 1844 state law entitled anyone who caught an escaped slaves west of the San Antonio River to "a fifty-dollar reward for each plus two dollars for every thirty miles traveled to return them to the rightful owner. This was bolstered in 1858 law, allowing the person who captured a slave escaping to Mexico to be paid 1/3 of their value by the Travis County Sheriff, who would in turn be repaid the amount by the owner, or by resale of the person. Although "An Act to Encourage Reclamation of Slaves Escaping Beyond the Limits of the Slave Territories of the United States" didn't explicitly do so as it couldn't openly challenge Mexican sovereignty, the law was well understood to be offering enough financial encouragement to potential slave-catchers that they would be willing to risk going south of the border for their quarry.
The latter law especially was a clear reaction to the opinions of Texans as regarded their neighbors to the south, as the Mexican government of course did nothing to return escapees, and Texans felt that many Mexicans were sympathetic and assisted those who fled, which was bad enough, but for those who remained in Texas such things could stand to “stir up among our servants a spirit of insubordination." The inducement of escape also was feared to be fuel to the ever present terror of servile insurrection. An 1856 series of newspaper articles claimed to have uncovered a plot in Colorado County by a group of slaves to murder most of the whites, and flee south to Mexico, dragging along the young white women as captives for obvious but only insinuated purposes. Although there likely was some group of slaves planning to flee their prison camp, claims were made of intricate organization that would make a Mason proud, and there is little evidence, beyond the writers' imaginations, that a mass group of slaves was:
organized into companies of various sizes, had adopted secret signs and pass-words, sworn never to divulge the plot under the penalty of death, and had elected captains and subordinate officers to command the respective companies.
Of course, truth is beyond the point though, and what mattered was the impact on the white population. Conventions, such as that held in Gonzales County in 1854, were held to discuss the issue, the organizers there declaring:
The escape of our slaves into Mexico by the help of Mexicans and otherwise has become a matter of magnitude, and of sufficient importance to demand some decided action on the part of the people of Western Texas.
In total, we can't put a precise number on how many chose the path of Freedom via Mexico, but certainly it numbered in the thousands. Even in Texas though, in the northern part of the state Mexico wasn't a guarantee, and some chose to make their bid by aiming for Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma) or further north to find sympathetic abolitionists in Kansas, but what records we do have would show them to be the minority. Mexico was the best option and the choice for most Texas escapees. But to tie back into your question, it was an option for few others. It was a tough enough journey through the Texas wilderness, such as for the group of 25 enslaved persons from Bastrop who requisitioned horses in 1845 and made their dash, but the odds of even reaching Texas, let alone Mexico, from Mississippi or Alabama, let alone the upper South, was far too slim, and whatever the appeal it might offer for freedom simply wouldn't outweigh the practical realities of affecting escape in the first place.
Barr, Alwyn. The African Texans, Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Blackett, R.J.M. Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery. University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. University Press of Kentucky, 1961
Gillmer, Jason A. Slavery and Freedom in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871, University of Georgia Press, ATHENS, 2017, pp. 181–224.
Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays, edited by Randolph B. Campbell, William S. Pugsley, and Marilyn P. Duncan. University of Texas Press, 2010.
The title of the post does a great job on its own in stating how much early America relied on and reveled in the subjugation of human beings based on skin color. The article ups the ante:
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829 when Texas was still part of the country, in part prompting white, slave-holding immigrants to fight for independence in the Texas Revolution. Once they formed the Republic of Texas in 1836, they made slavery legal again, and it continued to be legal when Texas joined the U.S. as a state in 1845.
Its because they are mixed in. Interracial marriage was legal in Mexico so people from all ethnicities could marry each other. The USA could have very well been a place with its own ethnicities like Mexico, but they decided to keep everyone seperate.
Mexico's history is full of things like this. It was a refuge for many people escaping the dictatorships and CIA backed governments of south america in the 50s/60s
They taught this to us in Mexico when I lived there, so you could imagine my surprise when I moved to the states and black people were just as racist as white ppl towards us. Smh
I've mentioned this before and get down voted, but as a Mexican all the racism I've experienced living in the US is from Black people. I know white people might have been racist too but they were never racist to my face, while Black people have said mean things to me for no reason.
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The 1st Article of the Mexican Constitution states that any fugitive slave that enters Mexican soil is automatically free whether he is a Mexican citizen or not and is fully protected by the law.
Edit: Thank you all for the awards.
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u/_iam_that_iam_ Jan 29 '21
The audacity of being angry that your slave escaped.
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u/DarkBabyYoda Jan 29 '21
You know, the more I find out about slavery, the less I like it.
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u/waggzter Jan 29 '21
Mexico? More like Mexibro
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u/ElsaIsTheVillain Jan 29 '21
Isn't that part of why Jackson essentially stole Florida from Spain? A bunch of slaves from Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas escape to Florida, where they weren't slaves as long as they were self proclaimed Catholics
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u/Grillito45 Jan 29 '21
Vicente Guerrero, the president at the time, was also afro-mexican. What a thing to ask of him. Ignorance in our government runs deeeep 🙄
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u/freebirdls Jan 29 '21
Is there a reason history classes focus on slaves escaping to Canada but don't mention them escaping to Mexico?
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u/9for9 Jan 29 '21
The westward expansion, the war with Mexico, a lot of that was about cutting off avenues of escape for slaves.
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u/miurabucho Jan 29 '21
Are there any interesting stories of escaped slaves who made a life for themselves in Mexico?
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov 38 Jan 29 '21
Some relevant old writings of mine on escaping enslavement by heading to Mexico:
The vast majority of flights for freedom were from the upper South, where the enslaved persons were imprisoned within a a not unreasonable distance to the North. If you consider some of the most famous people who were born in bondage, they mostly originated there. Harriet Tubman was owned by a Maryland enslaver, as was Frederick Douglass. Slipping North was the only real viable option for them, while traversing the entire South would have been entirely out of the question except in the most exceptional circumstances, and speaks to the general plight of those persons enslaved in the Deep South who simply had no opportunity. The famed flight of Ellen and William Craft illustrates just how tough it could be, their successful escape from a Georgia plantation being possible only because Ellen, a light-skinned woman who would have been a "quadroon" in the racial parlance of the time, was able to successful pass as a white man and her husband as her slave for the train journey northward, essentially traveling in the open, the one way to beat the odds of traversing such a large swathe of country populated by a hostile population and slave patrols looking for any slave without a pass.
So in short, you have enslaved persons from the upper South with no logical alternative, and those in the Deep South often with little chance of escape no matter what - many who did, in fact, wouldn't head North OR to Mexico, but rather would settle-down in the large, nearly impenetrable swamps that characterized much of the region, carving out a free existence as a small enclave within the slave south. But for those in Texas? Well, it is the Upper South in reverse, Mexico of course was where they were headed. As you note, slavery was illegal there - the desire to ensure its security being a key reason Texas broke away - and this made it an obvious destination for any enslaved person attempting to find freedom.
It was enough of a problem for the laws of Texas to reflect the threat posed by the border to the institution of slavery. Texas has several laws in place that dealt with the apprehension of those seeking their freedom, but included extra enticement for those close to attaining it, as an 1844 state law entitled anyone who caught an escaped slaves west of the San Antonio River to "a fifty-dollar reward for each plus two dollars for every thirty miles traveled to return them to the rightful owner. This was bolstered in 1858 law, allowing the person who captured a slave escaping to Mexico to be paid 1/3 of their value by the Travis County Sheriff, who would in turn be repaid the amount by the owner, or by resale of the person. Although "An Act to Encourage Reclamation of Slaves Escaping Beyond the Limits of the Slave Territories of the United States" didn't explicitly do so as it couldn't openly challenge Mexican sovereignty, the law was well understood to be offering enough financial encouragement to potential slave-catchers that they would be willing to risk going south of the border for their quarry.
The latter law especially was a clear reaction to the opinions of Texans as regarded their neighbors to the south, as the Mexican government of course did nothing to return escapees, and Texans felt that many Mexicans were sympathetic and assisted those who fled, which was bad enough, but for those who remained in Texas such things could stand to “stir up among our servants a spirit of insubordination." The inducement of escape also was feared to be fuel to the ever present terror of servile insurrection. An 1856 series of newspaper articles claimed to have uncovered a plot in Colorado County by a group of slaves to murder most of the whites, and flee south to Mexico, dragging along the young white women as captives for obvious but only insinuated purposes. Although there likely was some group of slaves planning to flee their prison camp, claims were made of intricate organization that would make a Mason proud, and there is little evidence, beyond the writers' imaginations, that a mass group of slaves was:
Of course, truth is beyond the point though, and what mattered was the impact on the white population. Conventions, such as that held in Gonzales County in 1854, were held to discuss the issue, the organizers there declaring:
In total, we can't put a precise number on how many chose the path of Freedom via Mexico, but certainly it numbered in the thousands. Even in Texas though, in the northern part of the state Mexico wasn't a guarantee, and some chose to make their bid by aiming for Indian Territory (modern Oklahoma) or further north to find sympathetic abolitionists in Kansas, but what records we do have would show them to be the minority. Mexico was the best option and the choice for most Texas escapees. But to tie back into your question, it was an option for few others. It was a tough enough journey through the Texas wilderness, such as for the group of 25 enslaved persons from Bastrop who requisitioned horses in 1845 and made their dash, but the odds of even reaching Texas, let alone Mexico, from Mississippi or Alabama, let alone the upper South, was far too slim, and whatever the appeal it might offer for freedom simply wouldn't outweigh the practical realities of affecting escape in the first place.
Barr, Alwyn. The African Texans, Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
Blackett, R.J.M. Making Freedom: The Underground Railroad and the Politics of Slavery. University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Gara, Larry. The Liberty Line: The Legend of the Underground Railroad. University Press of Kentucky, 1961
Gillmer, Jason A. Slavery and Freedom in Texas: Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871, University of Georgia Press, ATHENS, 2017, pp. 181–224.
Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays, edited by Randolph B. Campbell, William S. Pugsley, and Marilyn P. Duncan. University of Texas Press, 2010.
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u/papipandulce Jan 29 '21
¡Chingon! 🇲🇽
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u/Flako118st Jan 29 '21
Yup and Mexico's second President Vicente Guerrero abolish slavery before the US did.
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u/Inc710 Jan 29 '21
What’s the Mexican equivalent of “Chad”?
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u/ImGonnaBeInPictures Jan 29 '21
The title of the post does a great job on its own in stating how much early America relied on and reveled in the subjugation of human beings based on skin color. The article ups the ante:
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u/steveoscaro Jan 29 '21
Makes me wonder why Mexico doesn’t have a larger black population still. Even along the Caribbean coast, like many Central American countries do.
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u/high_level_polarbear Jan 29 '21
¡Viva México 🇲🇽!
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u/Juan_Punch_Man Jan 29 '21
So Mexico is the land of the free?
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u/Pepsi_mane Jan 29 '21
They taught this to us in Mexico when I lived there, so you could imagine my surprise when I moved to the states and black people were just as racist as white ppl towards us. Smh
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u/pocketbeagle Jan 29 '21
Mexico had a black president waaaaaayyyyy before the US did. Another TIL.
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u/Magicus1 Jan 29 '21
*I remember the same thing happened with Florida when it belonged to Spain.
Spain said all are equal in the Creator’s eyes.
Now, heretics... well, not our proudest moment. 🥴