Join Black History University Saturday at 6pm ET Mexico was a Sanctuary Country For Enslaved Africans On Sept. 15, 1829, Afro-Mexican President Vicente Guerrero signed a decree banning slavery in the Mexican Republic.
#SanctuaryCountry Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black Afro-Mexican President abolished Slavery Brig. Gen. Jose Urrea evicted scores of illegally-settled white plantation owners, liberated the enslaved, and in many instances, granted them on-the-spot titles to the land they had worked. Texas President Sam Houston lamented that ". . . two valuable negro boys for which I had paid in cash $2100 previous to my visit to Nashville, ran away last spring to Mexico. Thus you can see I am in bad luck."(17) ------ Little known history of Mexico serving as a refuge for self-liberated black people and a provider of job opportunities for Blacks emigrating from the U.S. to Mexico. The Mexican government severely restricted Anglo immigration and banned the introduction of the enslaved into the republic. History of Mexico’s support, sheltering, even abolitionism of America’s African slaves. Professor Wilkins couches his history in telling perspective that informs the debate over the right of Mexico’s undocumented to remain here: From the very beginning of his Texas colonization scheme, a determined and deceitful Stephen Austin sought to have Mexican officials acquiesce, agree, to the settlement of slave-owning whites into the territory.
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