@@PennyRed1 This is the first time I hearing it as well, but you can't simply say is a lie. You saw the documents and books written about it. I'm sure we can consider it factual. Now, your innuendo seems to be without any sort of evidence and proclaiming "that's a lie" only gets you to be a troll here.
This makes me so freaking PISSED as a black person. THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND NEEDS TO BE SHOUTED TO THE ROOFTOPS!!! The LIES AND THE AGENDA that have been told to us are so pathetic!! Thank you Hispanic brothers and sisters for helping the slaves. That's why you guys are so blessed! I appreciate and salute you!!!
México outlawed slavery in 1829 by Vicente Guerrero a multiracial men he had african roots from his mother for that reason he was the first brown president of Mexico before Benito Juárez the second brown president of Mexico the first Mexican president was Guadalupe Victoria a criollo son of Spaniard people and then the next president who fought against slavery was Antonio López de Santana a former captain of the Spanish army before change side to the independence insurgency almost all Mexican presidents were white Mexicans including Porfirio Díaz because his father was white criollo or son of Spaniard people.
MEXICANS, not Hispanics, helped blacks scape to Mexico. Thousands of slaves escaped to Mexico, especially to the northern states, and to this day, you see a lot of people with black ancestry across the border. Since all of the slaves adopted Hispanic names, and they adapted to Mexican society, and since we do not keep racial records, it's impossible to know who is who. Buy don't forget that.
Not just during Slavery but during Jim Crow era too. Phylicia Rashad and her sister Debbie Allen, spoke about this. Their Mom took them to Mexico. In a few Cosby show episodes, one can hear Phylicia Rashad speaking in Spanish.
Mexicans have always been cool, in high school I felt like an outcast until I fell in with a group of Mexicans who treated me like a true friend and had my back. They didn't care that I was black or that one guy was white and another from Sri Lanka, they took us all in and I'm still friends with a lot of them to this day. If more people took the time to get to know others, there would be a lot less division.
@@JOHNDOE-vg9geI know many Mexicans that are very to Puerto Ricans if u talk of racism talk to the Dominicans who happen to be racist towards their own ppl…
Hebrew Israelites Baruch 3:8 “Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.” 1 Kings 8:47 “Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;”
@@cassidylava2587yeah but most spanish countries still had slaves during this time, Mexico abolished slavery in 1822 and then the USA had its war on slavery against the confederate south in 1863. 1820 most Latin American nations were still fighting slavery at a very slow pase might I add, not only that but Mexico was of the first Mestizo nations to abolish slaves. Until the Yankees came into Texas and brought them as servants with a permission slip by the thousands along with Anglo-Saxon families
Why are yall saying "Hispanics" and not MEXICANS tho?? There werent many other "Spanish speakers" in the country at the time. It wasnt Puerto Ricans or Columbians or Peruvians etc it was MEXICANS. Let's give them their proper due and SAY THEIR NAME!
Only when hispanics do bad things they don't hasetate to say Mexicans and when Mexicans do good things they don't want give them credit thats ashamed 😕
My great grandpa would always tell us “ we lost Texas because we abolished Slavery and we didn’t let the gringos have them”. I never seen it on history books but I see now
It's not that bad anymore. Current college books on texas govt say that making slaves illegal in texas was one of the 3 main reasons for the texas revolution; along with feelings of white superiority.
American and Texas history school books tell you about the Texan-Mexican War and about the Alamo, what they don’t tell you (but Mexican school history books do) is that one of the reasons the Mexican Army marched up north to the Alamo was that the “Texans” that had taken over still had slaves and did not want to recognize that President Benito Juárez had abolished slavery in Mexico. After killing the occupants of the Alamo, the Mexican Army let the black slaves go free.
My 7G Grandfather was born in San Antonio in 1823 when it was part of Mexico . His parents moved to the UK and he joined a whaling ship then moved to NZ in 1845. They all left as they refused to live under US oppression and detested all slave owners
Exactly, according to the US (texas schools) mexico attacked its own mexican territory (texas) been the dictador bad guy killing its own people and the US came and liberated all the people the savior The US is the biggest liar criminal ever in the entire history , of course they don't say anything about slavery and the pilgrims going into mexican soil illegally killing Mexicans refusing to abolish slavery ,declaring independence in a land they were illegal and stealing half of mexico territory
@@periclesperez103 slavery was before that abolished. Actualy Isabella la católica already abolished slavery . still there was a Long process over all but the "leyes de Indias " and "leyes de Burgos" are Milestones in direction human rights . A fact that the anti Hispanic Propaganda created by the anglos to balkanize the Hispanic Sphere and legacy. One has to have in mind that the mindset of anti slavery in Hispanoamerica comes from the Hispanic Empire and the Hispanic faith and culture . It was above all the Catholic Church And the Spanish Crown wich fought against slavery and protected the indigenous by law. The Nahua religión and culture was deeply rooted to slavery , Mass sacrifices (including children) and ritual canibalism. Meaning the source of the humanistic mindeset in Mesoamérica comes from the Church and Spain . Wich is logical. In fact the Mexican goverment (after independencia) even Took away significant privileges and rights the indigenous had in the Hispanic Empire . wich led to conflicts with the Apache-chiricahuas for example . The Indigenous Allied nobility became Part of the Hispanic nobility. when New Spain (México+) was created as a result of Spanish -indigenous alliance. The Fusion was not one sided. both influenced each other. Spanish has 1500+ loanwords from indigenous languages. Etc Mexico was Not a victim but a very part of the Empire , Spain and Mexico was one and the same. ...and to be honest, México even beeing the Most important Part of the Empire richer then Spain It selfe. Voting together with Spain And the Other virreynatos the global supermacy back Then. There was no mexicsn identety Outside the Hispanic sfere Back then . The identety was created after the independencia. Saludos ✌🏼
@@unomasdelsur lastima que la mayoria de leyes aprobadas desde españa no entraron en vigor en la vida real en America. Fueron palabras escritas sin ejecución real por varias circunstancias. Tampoco creo en la leyenda rosa que nos quiere hacer creer que españa trataba y mantenia muy bien sus colonias, cosa que es inexacta. Si asi fuera, la gente no se hubiera entregado a luchar por la independencia con tanto fervor.
Hispanics are any Spanish speaking race in Latin America. This video is specifically about Mexicans so they should have said Mexicans not Hispanics, credit where credit is due
There’s a region called Costa Chica in Mexico that is predominantly inhabited by people of African ancestry. The Costa Chica is a 200-mile-long coastal region beginning just southeast of Acapulco, Guerrero, and ending near the town of Puerto Angel, Oaxaca.
The difference is that those people escaped from Spanish colonizers and the people in this video are the ones running for freedom from the slavery in the US
This made me cry. I thought I knew a lot of black history. I know so little. I didn’t know this. It’s beautiful, humane. We need to help each other. Much respect to the Mexican people.
This is so beautiful. It makes sad when I see black and mexican community against each other. We should embrace like brothers and sisters to fight oppression
I know right, but its starting to look like this history can actually help with that. The thing is Blacks like myself don't know this. Now I put it together doing my own family history but never the less.
I wished that I was taught this in school. However, I wasn’t. This is a subject that I’m very interested in reading more about. ✨Thank you to the brave women and men of Mexico 🇲🇽 who helped our ancestor’s out of slavery ✨🇲🇽🩷✨
i wish i had found out sooner that bp are a stereotype when it comes to what's below the belt but don't let that secret be known they would not like that.
They won't teach you this in school because the education system here wants pale skin to be glorified, not the tan people to the South of the Texas fake border.
Tell that to your people they seem to forget that we helped them alot and this is how they pay us? By robbing our innocent Mexican street vendor, by calling us racist slurs, and the famous “build the wall”, and telling us to go back to Mexico smh
I remember telling students this in high school back in2014. In the end I got in Trouble because here in the USA you have certain information THAT YOU DO NOT TALK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.. THATS WHAT I WAS TOLD AT THE OFFICE.
Republicans are trying to eliminate African American History is schools.. Desantis has already did it in Florida. They dont want young people to realize the atrocities that their ancestors committed towards minorities in the U.S. and aboard
But let’s not also forget that white Mexicans also had slaves.When the Spanish and Portuguese brought all the slaves to south and Central America. As well they also tried to erase that black people even existed in the country,and actually succeeded on doing so. The Argentinians tried that too,especially since they wanted to keep their country completely white,but they failed.
It wasn't just some Mexicans, the whole country all the people were willing to go to war to protect slaves after the US demanded the return of all slaves fleeing the country A big No from mexico followed of a big F yo pilgrims
In an effort to halt the invasion of US European Colonizers in Texas which was part of Mexican territory in 1829 the Mexican government abolished slavery on its land and added a Clause in the Mexican Constitution that abolished slavery and anyone who was held in bondage was free and was invited to come into Mexican territory. The European Colonizers not wanting to give up their slaves started the War of the Alamo in which Mexico lost Texas as a result of abolishing the slavery that the colonizers had brought into Mexican Territory. Then the US wanting to expand its territories provoked a war with mexico to appropriate all of the Southwest from Mexico. Abraham Lincoln was against the Mexican-American War because he knew that the land taken from mexico was going to become slave states, and they did, which caused the Civil War which ended slavery and brought on industrialization-democracy and ended the demand for slaves around the world and eventually ended the slave trade from Africa. The slave trade was a big lucrative business in Africa, according to UNESCO Black historian Augustine Holl for one slave who died on a voyage to different parts of the world, 7 slaves died on African soil at the hands of African Slave traders. As a result of Abolishing Slavery in the Mexican Territory, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the USA. Mexico triggered the end of Slavery around the world and suffered a tremendous loss of its territory.
Thank you Mexico! My esposo is Mexican and I have learn so much from his people. They are warm, loving, hard working and intelligent people. The Americanized ones are so so different. Anyway, again thank you Mexico for helping my ancestors escape chattel slavery. God bless you. Dios los bendiga a todos!
Actually, California was NOT admitted as a slave state, and Az and NMexico were not states til after the Civil War, as I recall. Texas, well, they went that way already - keeping slaves, which broke their lease from MX, has been given as a reason for the Mexican American war as well.
Meanwhile... What was the white slave trade called? The Barbary slave trade involved slave markets in the Barbary States. European slaves were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean.
From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates.[29] Slave quarters Edit At night the slaves were put into prisons called 'bagnios' (derived from the Italian word "bagno" for public bath, inspired by the Turks' use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons),[30] which were often hot and overcrowded. Bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops and bars run by captives.[31] Galley slaves Edit See also: Galley slave Conquest of Tunis by Charles V and liberation of Christian galley slaves in 1535 Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better than those endured by galley slaves. Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. There were exceptions: galley slaves of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople would be permanently confined to their galleys, and often served extremely long terms, averaging around nineteen years in the late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century periods. These slaves rarely got off the galley but lived there for years.[32] During this time, rowers were shackled and chained where they sat, and never allowed to leave. Sleeping (which was limited), eating, defecation and urination took place at the seat to which they were shackled. There were usually five or six rowers on each oar. Overseers would walk back and forth and whip slaves considered not to be working hard enough. Number of people enslaved Edit According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34] However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period, stating: There are no records of how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed, or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves were needed annually to replenish numbers-about 850,000 captives over the century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000.[5]
Thomas Jefferson When Thomas Jefferson became president, the pirates increased the cost of the tribute and Jefferson refused to pay it. Instead, he sent United States warships to the Mediterranean Sea, which eventually began bombarding the pirate bases. The pirates surrendered in 1805 in what came to be known as the First Barbary War.
An extra side note, the reason there was also a lot of tension between Texan settlers and Mexicans was because when they arrived from the East, they brought their slaves with them, horrifying the local Mexicans. It became such a problem that the Texans fought a 'revolution' not to become an independent country, but to breakaway from Mexico and join the US, just so they could keep their slaves.
@@Shaq-pm9zq And we really aren't, Argentina is "Hispanic" but they did some nasty stuff after WW2 and now they are broke. I don't relate to them at all as a Mexican.
As a 41yr old female Mexican I have known this since I was a kid. Its sad that not all of America does not know this. I give thanks to my mom for telling my sister and I the history of Mexico.
It’s taught in Mexico we just have a huge and vast history it’s hard to cover all of it at once quite literally, but it’s not unknown to us Mexicans that there are Mexicans of African decent, some just want to feel the victim of not being recognized by the world but I love every culture from my beloved Fatherland 🇲🇽 I’d hate to see these topics mingle with woke culture and watch how things take a turn for the worst, and remember to all my African Americans we may have some people in Mexico that are black but that doesn’t mean we come from the same backgrounds cultures and so fourth so please be respectful embrace the culture learn the language and have fun learning be mindful and please don’t come to Mexico expecting Mexicans to speak English on our soil all of a sudden, exclusively for you who might be reading this or any other “yank Anglo Americans”
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2og I am aware that America is a continent but given that the there is a "United States of America", I used that term. I also studied and still study geography.
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2og Para que sepas, tambien estudie geografia. Si quieres estar en desacuerdo puedes expresarse sin faltar respeto y usando privilegios de anglos.
@@RobertoAlvarezGalloso I apologize!! Pero, privilejios de anglos??!!!! Really!!! Los negros han matado, robado, discriminado, raped a mas Mexicanos que cualquier otro group, los gringo's son Angeles, a comoaracion, nuesrtros abuelos, tios, hermanos,etc,etc,etc, la han sufrido horriblemente a las manos de los negros.
My grandfather, born in 1885 in Las Yescas, Tx., witnessed Mexican slaves on a plantation here in Brownsville, Tx. He and I drove there and he showed me the dilapidated slave's living quarters. The quarters no longer exist, but the plantation house still stands, refurbished and turned into to a tourist attraction.
Mexico, led by the Spaniards, was never able to make slavery work. They weren't against it, it just required more work than they were willing to invest in it.
@@jaime-xs9vb From what I understand, June 19th, is now an official holiday across the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, that news got to Texas that the war had ended and all slaves were free.
Here I fix your title “How Mexicans helped slaves escape to Mexico on the Underground Railroad” I wouldn’t expect any great amount of other Latin American people who aren’t Mexicans during the 19 century living in the U.S. 😅
@@citizencoy4393 don’t forget that they also get offended that in the U.S there is dominance of Mexicans culture (ethnic-centrism) in which plenty of folks hate. They start using Chicano as theirs. Even though it means people of Mexican descent and etc…
The Mexican 🇲🇽 State of Veracruz had a significant population of African origin, especially in the center and south of the state. Cultural expressions such as the carnivals of Port of Veracruz, Yanga and Coyolillo, the son jarocho (Dance of Veracruz) the food and the names of various towns such as La Matamba, Mandinga, La Matosa, Mozomboa or the beaches of Mocambo, possibly have derived from the names of old palenques.
@@citizencoy4393 just like the black people are not like the ones back in the day then. You see all these young looters destroying cities those black slaves would be embarrassed
I truly believe a lot of our (Mexicans and African Americans) anger and frustration is genetically linked to the slavery, murder, torture, rape that our ancestors endured. I know as a Mexican male I often have crazy dreams and always wish I could go back in time and witness what my family had to endure compared to the life I live now
@@lykndeltoro8412 we are related actually. Africans fled before Columbus arrived and started families here. Mexico helped free the slaves from USA and they fought us over it including the Alamo. They won’t teach you that in American schools
@@MediCali951 if that were true we'd look like brazilians or Dominicans. Af ricans are one percent of the population. More lately since the mass migrations.
Yooo LMBO my boy Jose Nino down in Cali would tell African Americans that Mexico helped slaves escape slavery and even made them part of there army that man has courage because a lot of them would try to fight him but he would say I was an Advanced Placement History student and we learned that in there just look it up for yourself so you could believe me
Mexico abolished slavery before the us which is why many slaves escaped to Mexico. The 2nd president of Mexico abolished slavery and was of black and Mexican descent -vicente Guerrero. Also there is a small town in Mexico that celebrates Juneteenth. You can find these videos on youtube
That's why you don't make assumptions on others, and think you know all there is to know about them. Get to know about other countries, cultures, and people before you feel "a way" about them, or pass judgment on them. I have a link for you, about a slave who escaped to Mexico, and what happened to the slave catcher who dared cross into Mexico, chasing him. Link >ruclips.net/video/N0xGq-BCmUU/видео.htmlsi=aY3MUyQmTfcgNhK6
I've heard of this before. There is a place in Kansas City, KS called Quindaro Ruins. It's along the river where slaves escaped Missouri which as a slave state into Kansas which as a free state. There was Underground Railroad activity that lead the Black people who escaped to Mexico. There is a town in Mexico where many of them settled and the population is visibly Black. I don't recall the name of it.
El pueblo se llama Nacimiento. Yanga fue el primer pueblo libre de toda América fundado por esclavos originarios de África que se rebelaron al Virreinato de la Nueva España.
I remember reading about interracial marriage and laws that were made to stop it. It also talked about how Hispanic (or Mexican) men in Texas would marry black American women and no one said anything to them about it.
My dad is from a region in Mexico that has a lot of African ancestry called Costa Chico. He did ancestry DNA and he is 96% black, (with heritage from Africa Not the Caribbean)yet his first language is Spanish and his family only knows of Mexico as their home even tho they all look like Africans😊. He came to Texas in the 90s and married my mom who is Mexican and here everyone assumes he’s black American.
@@CamthaCupid thanks ☺️ i learn both at the same time. my first year was spanish but growing up my dad would speak to me using english and my mom used spanish that way i’d learn equally. the only thing is my english has a weird accent -not a spanish accent, just a weird accent.
@@Dovelunalove you're welcome that's really cool I always wished my first language was Spanish but it's my second that must've been a fun household with all the different traditions
One of the best things about learning history is that you don't have to rely on the textbooks in schools. There are so many things I have learned that textbooks never taught me.
This is important and something that should be taught in U.S. history. I think it would go a long way toward fostering a better modern-day relationship between these two groups in both countries.
Mexican American are from " old Mexico 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 MEXICO is America!! There's 27 continental American countries, the united states'🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 is just one of them!! White people come from Europe!! Mexicans and there reservation brothers and sisters, are the real, and only!!, North Americans!!! The rest are immigrants, U.S. citizens 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mexicans always helping ppl out that are in need.. n never seeking to be recognized.. That's my Mexican ppl.. Proud n Humble, hard working n always fighting for justice n peace.. God blessed Mexico..
Recently I started doing some research about my Genealogy, I was not surprised that I have 46% mexican native and 45% Spanish What was surprising was my 8% african ancestry, my mom’s side is from Durango northern area, and according to my DNA I had a female ancestor 4 generations back, unfortunately we only know about 2 generations and very little about the 3rd one, I believe my great great great grandma was one of the freed people, I only hope that her life in Mexico was way better than in the land of the “free”.
My family is from the Rio Grande valley in South Texas. I heard stories from people there about helping runaway slaves to cross the Rio Grande river into Mexico. Here is a link that can explain some more on how South Texas Mexicans or as I call myself "Tejanos" came to help them escape from the "Gringo" ruclips.net/video/oAByeTZto5U/видео.html
Respect to all of the Mexicans, Canadians, and American Abolitionists, who helped asylum seeking slaves. There were times Mexican civilians armed themselves, to protect asylum seeking slaves, from border crossing slave catchers. Sad thing is, at the beginning of this video, there was an ad of an African American woman, fear mongering over Mexican migrants taking over the country, etc. SMH
From what I have read, Activist such as Luis Moreno and Charlotta Bass have mentioned that African Americans And Mexican Americans have gone through similar injustices. They have been put against each other because loving each other together and being strong together is a threat to the systemic injustices that we we live. This is why I loved the Last Wakanda Forever Movie. I have to say that it’s ignorance and what was implanted in us by the people in high ranking politicians like the neo- nazis white supremacists who were hiding behind a suit and in a tie though out history “from boots to suits”. It has made these two groups dislike each other through generations. Especially strong to dislike and hurt each other in the jail system. Love to all people! Including Asian, Indian and everyone else we share this world with. Who I am and what do I know right ! I have been asked where I’m from. I’m Mexican American and we all look different. We have so many mixes. I just took a dna test that shows that I have 9% Senegal 🇸🇳 where they had a center for slave trade. Another percentage is from Spain and and Portugal, Iran, European Jewish and Mexican Michoacán indigenous. It was shocking to learn that I have ancestors that lived and experienced the slave trade. The first book I ever really read was “to be a slave”. And I was angry and cried by the stories. This book and watching “Roots”opened up more curiosity on how people can be so cruel. I became more interested to learn about history. I have to say that in Mexico and other countries people African descent continue to experience the effect, disadvantage, and the systemic injustices through generation because of slavery. They are looked down on just because of the darker skin. If you are Mexican you most likely have a percentage of African American. What so bizarre is that in Mexico racism is so common. The light Mexicans that look more European/white although might have a high percentage or African and indigenous roots, will be favored and have higher paying jobs and are most likely to be get roles in movies and novelas. They only hire the dark skinned Mexicans as servants and criminals in roles. Media has made it appear that being lighter is being better. Brain washed people. My mom saw a baby with blue eyes and blonde hair and made a comment that the baby looked like an Angel. I’m looking at my moreno baby and I say, mom all babies look like angels.
First of all I'm not reading all the bullshit that you wrote and second how is mexicans similar to black people Mexican is not a race it's a nationality everyone in that culture are not in the same category or boat let me tell you something people from that culture did not go thru slavery for 400years and did not got hung killed on the trees and black people were castrated and burned alive if you don't know black people are the most hated race Mexican is not a race and you non black people from Mexico it's not hated now blacks from Mexico there similar to us cuz there black like us and please Mexicans are down with white supremacists come on Mexicans love white people plus your close thats a fact Mexico is pure racist country towards blacks now Puerto Ricans there close to blacks that's a fact
I don’t know if they helped mine in particular but such a cool thing to hear!!!!!!! God bless everyone who did such a great thing and bless the future generations
We saved ourselves. Mexicos been Black since forever early as the Olmecs & Chichen itza. Slavery abolished in 1824 & last of the enslaved freed by 2nd Black President Vicente Guerrero in 1929. Lastly I eff wit Mexican ppl & some aspects of the culture. All we need & got is us. We saved our Mfkn Selves!
Mexico had a very generous inmigración policy. If interested, there is a series of documentaries about racism in Latin America by Henry Luis Gates Jr. he talks about a group o slaves that scape to the countryside of Mexico. Their descendants inhabit a town. He also talks about two heroes of the Mexican independence who had African ancestry.
Meanwhile the other half of Mexicans teamed up with the confederates & owned slaves, especially in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, back when marijuana was LEGAL Georgia was one of the main grow states. Mexicans also fought side by side with the confederates against the U.S to NOT end slavery because they knew if the U.S won, their cash flow stopped. Mexicans came as far as Arizona to join the war, Arizona was one of the only BOLD states on the west coast to proudly say they joined the confederacy. But it was no way possible they could beat the Army which started recruiting free slaves, plus the hundreds of different revolt run-away groups that were killing off slave masters & overseers left & right in the Southeast of the U.S. it was a slaughter fest they had no win. “The United Daughter’s Of The Confederacy” re-wrote the history books & infiltrated the educational system & legal system. That’s what happens when some racist rednecks try to over-throw the Country & doesn’t get arrested for treason, the 40,000 confederates that surrendered were only sent back to their southern states to only push the 🇺🇸 agenda, but we all know that was a lie
Francisco Menéndez: Born in The Gambia in West Africa, Menéndez was captured and sold into slavery, being purchased by European slave traders and shipped across the Atlantic to Carolina. He escaped into the Spanish province of Florida soon after, taking advantage of Spanish legislation promising freedom to all and much better treatment to other races fugitive slaves from the Southern colonies. Menéndez converted to Catholicism and enlisted in the colonial militia, settling down in a settlement created for free people of color by the Spanish authorities. Participating in numerous conflicts on the side of the Spanish Crown, Menéndez was recognized by the Spanish Crown for his loyalty and courage through the numerous conflicts he participated in.[1] Francisco was also recognized as the founder of San Agustín de la Nueva Florida, a village in Cuba
Black people in Mexico have always been considered beautiful and marry locals, most afromexicans are mixed-race. BTW, Mexico's IDs and documents don't include what race or etnicity people is like in the US
So what are you saying you racist scumbag that blacks are beautiful cuz there mixed nah they are fine cuz there black and that's bullshit most of them black people are not mixed there full black and yeah some mixed
@@lykndeltoro Maybe you haven't paid enough attention, because they are everywhere. Remember it's a mixed raced country, don't expect them to look like those that have only been mixed once, that is a stereotype of how african descendants "should look". If you still have doubts, take a look at the casta's descriptions.
The reason why t"Mexico would help the people that they used for forced slavery was because the president of Mexico was indigenous black!!! ""Vicente Guerrero"""...💯💯👍🏾👍🏾
@JimmyGarcia-hh2og his dad was African/Mexican and his mother was a native Mexican. Still making him the only president in Mexico from two different races.
Vicente Guerrero first mexican/African 2nd president in Mexico From a free slave and Mexican parents Look him up !!!! It’s much deeper and beautiful 😭 mad respect ✊🏽 to Vicente
This is why we need to keep classical education and private schools! Today’s educational system doesn’t teach all the facts about not only Texas history but history in general.
I don’t remember where I did read that, back in the day, when slavery, some black people escaped from US farms to Mexico. Later patrons from us farms, did write to Mexico asking back for their slaves. So, the main person from Mexico did write back saying, we don’t have slaves in Mexico, we only have Mexicans. Sorry I do not remember details.
Generational Texan here. A 5th ggf of mine Nathaniel Jackson (1798) and wife Matilda Hicks (1801) Hidalgo, Tx., was part of this important story. They were considered an interracial couple in Georgia/Alabama. They helped many people start new lives in South Texas. I have many Mexican cousins. History from school was almost all wrong. I went looking for African heroes in my lineage. ❤ There were none. 😔 I was mad at first. We were lied to. These people were Indian POWs forced into one-sided life-long contracts. Many of my ancestors were dropped from the Dawes rolls. They were not 100% of 1 tribe. They had linage of several tribes, with a couple of European lines, but none from Africa. Some of us didn't cross the border back into Mexico😢. We stopped in Texas. Los Mascogos are Seminole Indians that came from the Carolinas down to Florida, then a stop in Oklahoma where their land grants *should have been honored - but weren't, then to Texas, and Mexico. There's no Africa in the story, but they had to detach us from the land to take the land from us. Even Camp Bullis military installation rt outside San Antonio, Texas is named after a "black" Seminole Indian scot. Negro & Mulatto became Black. Black became African American. Now Indians are Africans. 😢 We're still here. From many tribes... one.
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As a Black Man in America, this is my first time hearing this and I'm 50 years old, thank you my Mexican Brother's, and Canadian friends
That's a lie
@@PennyRed1 🤡
@@PennyRed1you are a lie
@@PennyRed1 This is the first time I hearing it as well, but you can't simply say is a lie. You saw the documents and books written about it. I'm sure we can consider it factual. Now, your innuendo seems to be without any sort of evidence and proclaiming "that's a lie" only gets you to be a troll here.
you just want some mexican pootang
This makes me so freaking PISSED as a black person. THIS IS INCREDIBLE AND NEEDS TO BE SHOUTED TO THE ROOFTOPS!!!
The LIES AND THE AGENDA that have been told to us are so pathetic!! Thank you Hispanic brothers and sisters for helping the slaves.
That's why you guys are so blessed! I appreciate and salute you!!!
Nobody cares
México outlawed slavery in 1829 by Vicente Guerrero a multiracial men he had african roots from his mother for that reason he was the first brown president of Mexico before Benito Juárez the second brown president of Mexico the first Mexican president was Guadalupe Victoria a criollo son of Spaniard people and then the next president who fought against slavery was Antonio López de Santana a former captain of the Spanish army before change side to the independence insurgency almost all Mexican presidents were white Mexicans including Porfirio Díaz because his father was white criollo or son of Spaniard people.
@@mexicohispanico6499 this is awesome to know!!!
Your not black 😂
They did not teach me this in school and am from Texas!!!!!!!
MEXICANS, not Hispanics, helped blacks scape to Mexico. Thousands of slaves escaped to Mexico, especially to the northern states, and to this day, you see a lot of people with black ancestry across the border. Since all of the slaves adopted Hispanic names, and they adapted to Mexican society, and since we do not keep racial records, it's impossible to know who is who. Buy don't forget that.
Exactly!
Not just during Slavery but during Jim Crow era too. Phylicia Rashad and her sister Debbie Allen, spoke about this. Their Mom took them to Mexico.
In a few Cosby show episodes, one can hear Phylicia Rashad speaking in Spanish.
Yessir my great grandmother was one of them
Thank YOU
Mexicans ARE Hispanic.
Mexicans have always been cool, in high school I felt like an outcast until I fell in with a group of Mexicans who treated me like a true friend and had my back. They didn't care that I was black or that one guy was white and another from Sri Lanka, they took us all in and I'm still friends with a lot of them to this day. If more people took the time to get to know others, there would be a lot less division.
Yeah the "nobody gets left behind.."if I eat..we all eat" mentality is forever stapled in mexican culture
Beautiful
Mexicans hate on Dominicans and Puerto Ricans thoo
@@JOHNDOE-vg9geI know many Mexicans that are very to Puerto Ricans if u talk of racism talk to the Dominicans who happen to be racist towards their own ppl…
@@JOHNDOE-vg9geand puerto ricans and dominicans hate mexicans😂 in florida people tell me mexicans are the bottom of the barrel
They were Mexicans not Hispanics, get it right fox.
ummm us latinos ARENT just mexicans you see how white people just label latinos JUST mexicans
Hebrew Israelites
Baruch 3:8
“Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.”
1 Kings 8:47
“Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;”
@@cassidylava2587yeah but most spanish countries still had slaves during this time, Mexico abolished slavery in 1822 and then the USA had its war on slavery against the confederate south in 1863. 1820 most Latin American nations were still fighting slavery at a very slow pase might I add, not only that but Mexico was of the first Mestizo nations to abolish slaves. Until the Yankees came into Texas and brought them as servants with a permission slip by the thousands along with Anglo-Saxon families
@@cassidylava2587Latinos are much better than Anglosaxon people, Latin people came from ancient Romans!
Mexicans are Hispanics, Latinos just like me
Why are yall saying "Hispanics" and not MEXICANS tho?? There werent many other "Spanish speakers" in the country at the time. It wasnt Puerto Ricans or Columbians or Peruvians etc it was MEXICANS. Let's give them their proper due and SAY THEIR NAME!
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Mexicans are Hispanic. 🤦😂😂😂
It was Mexicans get it right!!! Mexicos 2nd president was A BLACK MAN VICENTE GUERRERO!!
Only when hispanics do bad things they don't hasetate to say Mexicans and when Mexicans do good things they don't want give them credit thats ashamed 😕
@jaime-xs9vb it's always been like that idk why so much hate on mexicans
My great grandpa would always tell us “ we lost Texas because we abolished Slavery and we didn’t let the gringos have them”. I never seen it on history books but I see now
Very few people know that
They stole Mexico like they steal everything else.
You can read the " Duel of the Eagles" very good book and is in Engllish
It's not that bad anymore. Current college books on texas govt say that making slaves illegal in texas was one of the 3 main reasons for the texas revolution; along with feelings of white superiority.
yeah your ggpa sounded like such a great man to look up too. hope
you sensed the sarcasm.
American and Texas history school books tell you about the Texan-Mexican War and about the Alamo, what they don’t tell you (but Mexican school history books do) is that one of the reasons the Mexican Army marched up north to the Alamo was that the “Texans” that had taken over still had slaves and did not want to recognize that President Benito Juárez had abolished slavery in Mexico. After killing the occupants of the Alamo, the Mexican Army let the black slaves go free.
My 7G Grandfather was born in San Antonio in 1823 when it was part of Mexico . His parents moved to the UK and he joined a whaling ship then moved to NZ in 1845. They all left as they refused to live under US oppression and detested all slave owners
Exactly, according to the US (texas schools) mexico attacked its own mexican territory (texas) been the dictador bad guy killing its own people and the US came and liberated all the people the savior
The US is the biggest liar criminal ever in the entire history , of course they don't say anything about slavery and the pilgrims going into mexican soil illegally killing Mexicans refusing to abolish slavery ,declaring independence in a land they were illegal and stealing half of mexico territory
The slaverya was been abolished in mexican territories since 1810 with the declaration of independence from spain...
@@periclesperez103 slavery was before that abolished. Actualy Isabella la católica already abolished slavery . still there was a Long process over all but the "leyes de Indias " and "leyes de Burgos" are Milestones in direction human rights .
A fact that the anti Hispanic Propaganda created by the anglos to balkanize the Hispanic Sphere and legacy.
One has to have in mind that the mindset of anti slavery in Hispanoamerica comes from the Hispanic Empire and the Hispanic faith and culture .
It was above all the Catholic Church And the Spanish Crown wich fought against slavery and protected the indigenous by law.
The Nahua religión and culture was deeply rooted to slavery , Mass sacrifices (including children) and ritual canibalism. Meaning the source of the humanistic mindeset in Mesoamérica comes from the Church and Spain . Wich is logical.
In fact the Mexican goverment (after independencia) even Took away significant privileges and rights the indigenous had in the Hispanic Empire . wich led to conflicts with the Apache-chiricahuas for example .
The Indigenous Allied nobility became Part of the Hispanic nobility. when New Spain (México+) was created as a result of Spanish -indigenous alliance. The Fusion was not one sided. both influenced each other. Spanish has 1500+ loanwords from indigenous languages. Etc
Mexico was Not a victim but a very part of the Empire , Spain and Mexico was one and the same. ...and to be honest, México even beeing the Most important Part of the Empire richer then Spain It selfe. Voting together with Spain And the Other virreynatos the global supermacy back Then.
There was no mexicsn identety Outside the Hispanic sfere Back then . The identety was created after the independencia.
Saludos ✌🏼
@@unomasdelsur lastima que la mayoria de leyes aprobadas desde españa no entraron en vigor en la vida real en America. Fueron palabras escritas sin ejecución real por varias circunstancias. Tampoco creo en la leyenda rosa que nos quiere hacer creer que españa trataba y mantenia muy bien sus colonias, cosa que es inexacta. Si asi fuera, la gente no se hubiera entregado a luchar por la independencia con tanto fervor.
MEXICANS not Hispanics 🤦🏻♀️
Mexicans are Hispanic 🤦
Wth are we then tf?
Hispanics are any Spanish speaking race in Latin America. This video is specifically about Mexicans so they should have said Mexicans not Hispanics, credit where credit is due
@@judyleon830 Hispanic is NOT a race it's a ethnic group. 🤦😂
@@Yvonne19903 Most Mexicans are real Americans, Native Americans. . most are not.
There’s a region called Costa Chica in Mexico that is predominantly inhabited by people of African ancestry. The Costa Chica is a 200-mile-long coastal region beginning just southeast of Acapulco, Guerrero, and ending near the town of Puerto Angel, Oaxaca.
In coahuila México is a place called Nacimiento de los negros, was an exclusive blacks Town.
The difference is that those people escaped from Spanish colonizers and the people in this video are the ones running for freedom from the slavery in the US
In Veracruz state you can find the black heritage places by their names: Mocambo, Mandinga, Yanga, La Matoza, La Mancha,
😆 yes I have a couple of friends from Costa Chica that look African it's crazy!
True, I am black man from Acapulco
This made me cry. I thought I knew a lot of black history. I know so little. I didn’t know this. It’s beautiful, humane. We need to help each other. Much respect to the Mexican people.
me too man, hey perhaps this is our open door to to revisit our history and build a synchronized future for all
This is embellished. It's pathetic black people are so ignorant of their own history they believe anything they're told.
If that made you cry? Wait till you find out West Africans sold and profited from selling their fellow man.
Yes , look up Vicente Guerrero and how mexico celebrates Juneteenth
Is not black history, it is African American history, Anglo-American, latin Americans, Asian American etc..
This is so beautiful. It makes sad when I see black and mexican community against each other. We should embrace like brothers and sisters to fight oppression
No fight
Mexicans have obviously always helped the af ricans they're the ones k ill ing our vulnerable people.
I know right, but its starting to look like this history can actually help with that. The thing is Blacks like myself don't know this. Now I put it together doing my own family history but never the less.
It's división that is created ok purpose by the elite
Look up how mexico celebrates Juneteenth
I wished that I was taught this in school. However, I wasn’t. This is a subject that I’m very interested in reading more about. ✨Thank you to the brave women and men of Mexico 🇲🇽 who helped our ancestor’s out of slavery ✨🇲🇽🩷✨
why do you wish that? so you'd hate mexican people less?
i wish i had found out sooner that bp are a stereotype when it comes to what's below the belt but don't let that secret be known they would not like that.
It's a mostly a lie you shouldn't be so gullible.
They won't teach you this in school because the education system here wants pale skin to be glorified, not the tan people to the South of the Texas fake border.
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You're insane.
Always had love for my Mexican brothers and sisters 🇲🇽
Tell that to your people they seem to forget that we helped them alot and this is how they pay us? By robbing our innocent Mexican street vendor, by calling us racist slurs, and the famous “build the wall”, and telling us to go back to Mexico smh
I remember telling students this in high school back in2014. In the end I got in Trouble because here in the USA you have certain information THAT YOU DO NOT TALK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.. THATS WHAT I WAS TOLD AT THE OFFICE.
You got love for them. You stupid they don’t like blacks either.
No
@@StyleswithCourtney?
This should be told in the Chicano studies and African American history
Totally agree!
When you became director general of Departament of Education, meanwhile, long live Caucasian American history.
@@roberto-qy2yslies of American history hurray!
@@__-fl3ytyes, and you can't do anything. America white forever.
Republicans are trying to eliminate African American History is schools.. Desantis has already did it in Florida. They dont want young people to realize the atrocities that their ancestors committed towards minorities in the U.S. and aboard
That was nice of Mexico 🇲🇽 to open the doors for them
I found out a couple of days ago they even celebrated Juneteenth in certain parts of Mexico.
👋🐸HOLA CYNTHIA BIEN GUAPA 😍
But let’s not also forget that white Mexicans also had slaves.When the Spanish and Portuguese brought all the slaves to south and Central America. As well they also tried to erase that black people even existed in the country,and actually succeeded on doing so. The Argentinians tried that too,especially since they wanted to keep their country completely white,but they failed.
@@Bumbumbr-zu5gcWhat's your source?
@@surcalifas503 History?
Thank you Mexicans. God bless the ones that help blacks escape the horrors of chattel slavery. Dios los bendiga a todos.
It was black mexicans that helped, and the mexican that knew they were afro these mexican now dont know their history, they want to be Europeans now
It wasn't just some Mexicans, the whole country all the people were willing to go to war to protect slaves after the US demanded the return of all slaves fleeing the country
A big No from mexico followed of a big F yo pilgrims
In an effort to halt the invasion of US European Colonizers in Texas which was part of Mexican territory in 1829 the Mexican government abolished slavery on its land and added a Clause in the Mexican Constitution that abolished slavery and anyone who was held in bondage was free and was invited to come into Mexican territory. The European Colonizers not wanting to give up their slaves started the War of the Alamo in which Mexico lost Texas as a result of abolishing the slavery that the colonizers had brought into Mexican Territory. Then the US wanting to expand its territories provoked a war with mexico to appropriate all of the Southwest from Mexico. Abraham Lincoln was against the Mexican-American War because he knew that the land taken from mexico was going to become slave states, and they did, which caused the Civil War which ended slavery and brought on industrialization-democracy and ended the demand for slaves around the world and eventually ended the slave trade from Africa. The slave trade was a big lucrative business in Africa, according to UNESCO Black historian Augustine Holl for one slave who died on a voyage to different parts of the world, 7 slaves died on African soil at the hands of African Slave traders. As a result of Abolishing Slavery in the Mexican Territory, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the USA. Mexico triggered the end of Slavery around the world and suffered a tremendous loss of its territory.
Thank you Mexico! My esposo is Mexican and I have learn so much from his people. They are warm, loving, hard working and intelligent people. The Americanized ones are so so different. Anyway, again thank you Mexico for helping my ancestors escape chattel slavery. God bless you. Dios los bendiga a todos!
Actually, California was NOT admitted as a slave state, and Az and NMexico were not states til after the Civil War, as I recall. Texas, well, they went that way already - keeping slaves, which broke their lease from MX, has been given as a reason for the Mexican American war as well.
Meanwhile...
What was the white slave trade called?
The Barbary slave trade involved slave markets in the Barbary States. European slaves were acquired by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the southwest of Britain, as far north as Iceland and into the Eastern Mediterranean.
From bases on the Barbary coast, North Africa, the Barbary pirates raided ships traveling through the Mediterranean and along the northern and western coasts of Africa, plundering their cargo and enslaving the people they captured. From at least 1500, the pirates also conducted raids along seaside towns of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, the Netherlands and as far away as Iceland, capturing men, women and children. On some occasions, settlements such as Baltimore, Ireland were abandoned following the raid, only being resettled many years later. Between 1609 and 1616, England alone had 466 merchant ships lost to Barbary pirates.[29]
Slave quarters
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At night the slaves were put into prisons called 'bagnios' (derived from the Italian word "bagno" for public bath, inspired by the Turks' use of Roman baths at Constantinople as prisons),[30] which were often hot and overcrowded. Bagnios had chapels, hospitals, shops and bars run by captives.[31]
Galley slaves
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See also: Galley slave
Conquest of Tunis by Charles V and liberation of Christian galley slaves in 1535
Although the conditions in bagnios were harsh, they were better than those endured by galley slaves. Most Barbary galleys were at sea for around eighty to a hundred days a year, but when the slaves assigned to them were on land, they were forced to do hard manual labor. There were exceptions:
galley slaves of the Ottoman Sultan in Constantinople would be permanently confined to their galleys, and often served extremely long terms, averaging around nineteen years in the late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century periods. These slaves rarely got off the galley but lived there for years.[32]
During this time, rowers were shackled and chained where they sat, and never allowed to leave. Sleeping (which was limited), eating, defecation and urination took place at the seat to which they were shackled. There were usually five or six rowers on each oar. Overseers would walk back and forth and whip slaves considered not to be working hard enough.
Number of people enslaved
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According to Robert Davis, between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[33][34] However, to extrapolate his numbers, Davis assumes the number of European slaves captured by Barbary pirates were constant for a 250-year period, stating:
There are no records of how many men, women and children were enslaved, but it is possible to calculate roughly the number of fresh captives that would have been needed to keep populations steady and replace those slaves who died, escaped, were ransomed, or converted to Islam. On this basis it is thought that around 8,500 new slaves were needed annually to replenish numbers-about 850,000 captives over the century from 1580 to 1680. By extension, for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000.[5]
Thomas Jefferson
When Thomas Jefferson became president, the pirates increased the cost of the tribute and Jefferson refused to pay it. Instead, he sent United States warships to the Mediterranean Sea, which eventually began bombarding the pirate bases. The pirates surrendered in 1805 in what came to be known as the First Barbary War.
An extra side note, the reason there was also a lot of tension between Texan settlers and Mexicans was because when they arrived from the East, they brought their slaves with them, horrifying the local Mexicans. It became such a problem that the Texans fought a 'revolution' not to become an independent country, but to breakaway from Mexico and join the US, just so they could keep their slaves.
Where does other Hispanics take place in this story? MEXICANS helped black brothers
They have to make Hispanics feel equal😮
@@Shaq-pm9zq And we really aren't, Argentina is "Hispanic" but they did some nasty stuff after WW2 and now they are broke. I don't relate to them at all as a Mexican.
@@Shaq-pm9zqmost Americans think all Latinos are Mexicans anyways
So what? The same story of Hispanics helping blacks occured all over latin America.
Mexican people helping our brothers!! That is all it was..
This is nothing new we are the same people if you go deeper
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They should stop k ill ing our elders and street vendors
@@lorddontay7565no we're not. You can pay your respects without degrading us.
As a 41yr old female Mexican I have known this since I was a kid. Its sad that not all of America does not know this. I give thanks to my mom for telling my sister and I the history of Mexico.
I didn't know this either. Why is it that stuff like this is not taught in school?
It’s taught in Mexico we just have a huge and vast history it’s hard to cover all of it at once quite literally, but it’s not unknown to us Mexicans that there are Mexicans of African decent, some just want to feel the victim of not being recognized by the world but I love every culture from my beloved Fatherland 🇲🇽
I’d hate to see these topics mingle with woke culture and watch how things take a turn for the worst, and remember to all my African Americans we may have some people in Mexico that are black but that doesn’t mean we come from the same backgrounds cultures and so fourth so please be respectful embrace the culture learn the language and have fun learning
be mindful and please don’t come to Mexico expecting Mexicans to speak English on our soil all of a sudden, exclusively for you who might be reading this or any other
“yank Anglo Americans”
@@YoungMuscleCock I agree with you 💯. Saludo des de Texas. VIVA MEXICO!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Saludos cordiales desde California 👋🏽
I'm 26 years old and when I try telling people things in school I got in Trouble.. You are not ALLOWED TO SAY CERTAIN INFORMATION HERE ON THE USA...
Thanks for this documentary especially when this was never taught in school. In many areas of America, education was Anglo centered.
In the united states'🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
America is a continent, not a country.
Study geography.
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2og I am aware that America is a continent but given that the there is a "United States of America", I used that term. I also studied and still study geography.
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2og Para que sepas, tambien estudie geografia. Si quieres estar en desacuerdo puedes expresarse sin faltar respeto y usando privilegios de anglos.
@@RobertoAlvarezGalloso
I apologize!!
Pero, privilejios de anglos??!!!!
Really!!! Los negros han matado, robado, discriminado, raped a mas Mexicanos que cualquier otro group, los gringo's son Angeles, a comoaracion, nuesrtros abuelos, tios, hermanos,etc,etc,etc, la han sufrido horriblemente a las manos de los negros.
I'm mexican , but my great, great grandmother was black, so most likely one of those who escaped from texas.
Or maybe her African descendents were brought as Slaves to Mexico by the Spaniards. They were brought mainly to Michoacán, Guerrero, and Jalisco.
Sáquese a tu pariente se lo trajeron de África y ya.
Have you done a dna?
4 generations living free in Méjico, it’s highly likely you may also have Indigenous and European ancestors.
Or she could have been brought by the Spaniards around the Veracruz region.
@@Nimue333
My grandfather, born in 1885 in Las Yescas, Tx., witnessed Mexican slaves on a
plantation here in Brownsville, Tx. He and I drove there and he showed me the dilapidated slave's living quarters. The quarters no longer exist, but the plantation house still stands, refurbished and turned into to a tourist attraction.
I think you might be my cousin, does Leanora Benavides Galvan ring a bell? Abram Villarreal....Inez Villarreal
Slavery was abolished in 1865. Maybe these Mexican nationals were forced to work, but not slaves?
Mexico, led by the Spaniards, was never able to make slavery work. They weren't against it, it just required more work than they were willing to invest in it.
@@rebeca3284 why do think they have June 19th in Texas
@@jaime-xs9vb From what I understand, June 19th, is now an official holiday across the United States. It was on June 19, 1865, that news got to Texas that the war had ended and all slaves were free.
Here I fix your title “How Mexicans helped slaves escape to Mexico on the Underground Railroad” I wouldn’t expect any great amount of other Latin American people who aren’t Mexicans during the 19 century living in the U.S. 😅
Thank You!!! Dont be so broad as to simply say "Hispanics" when this subject specifically depicts historic events between slaves and Mexico
Honduras has black people and we’re once slaves so as Panama and some small towns in Guatemala
Exactly 💯👍
Be careful that offends the other hispanics. How dare u get to be associated with america in such an intimate way🤭
@@citizencoy4393 don’t forget that they also get offended that in the U.S there is dominance of Mexicans culture (ethnic-centrism) in which plenty of folks hate. They start using Chicano as theirs. Even though it means people of Mexican descent and etc…
The Mexican 🇲🇽 State of Veracruz had a significant population of African origin, especially in the center and south of the state. Cultural expressions such as the carnivals of Port of Veracruz, Yanga and Coyolillo, the son jarocho (Dance of Veracruz) the food and the names of various towns such as La Matamba, Mandinga, La Matosa, Mozomboa or the beaches of Mocambo, possibly have derived from the names of old palenques.
Yes, we must also remember Africans were also brought as slaves to Mexico by Spaniards.
In Guerrero and Oaxaca too. A place called La Costa Chica has a lot of Afro Mexicans
Thanks Dr. Galvan for not being to proud to speak about this.
The first President of Mexico was a Black Mulatto.. Vicente Guerrero.. not surprising at all.
Vera Cruz had been a port for slavery.
Regardless if some didnt know this, unconsciously we have always showed love to our Mexican homies
Back in the day. The Mexicans today are not the same Mexicans from 35 years ago!
Not true
Mexico was at war with America
@@citizencoy4393 what? We didn’t all die lmao
@@citizencoy4393 just like the black people are not like the ones back in the day then. You see all these young looters destroying cities those black slaves would be embarrassed
@@el5880😂😂
Thank you for this video! Thank you to our Mexican and African ancestors!! 🥰❤
I truly believe a lot of our (Mexicans and African Americans) anger and frustration is genetically linked to the slavery, murder, torture, rape that our ancestors endured. I know as a Mexican male I often have crazy dreams and always wish I could go back in time and witness what my family had to endure compared to the life I live now
Only one percent of Mexico isaf rican.
@@MediCali951We're not related they just live in Mexico cause the yts would have kept them in c hinz.
@@lykndeltoro8412 we are related actually. Africans fled before Columbus arrived and started families here. Mexico helped free the slaves from USA and they fought us over it including the Alamo. They won’t teach you that in American schools
@@MediCali951 if that were true we'd look like brazilians or Dominicans. Af ricans are one percent of the population. More lately since the mass migrations.
Yooo LMBO my boy Jose Nino down in Cali would tell African Americans that Mexico helped slaves escape slavery and even made them part of there army that man has courage because a lot of them would try to fight him but he would say I was an Advanced Placement History student and we learned that in there just look it up for yourself so you could believe me
I was never taught this. I'm glad this is coming out. I can't lie I felt a way that a whole country was next door and didn't help at all.
Mexico abolished slavery before the us which is why many slaves escaped to Mexico. The 2nd president of Mexico abolished slavery and was of black and Mexican descent -vicente Guerrero. Also there is a small town in Mexico that celebrates Juneteenth. You can find these videos on youtube
That's why you don't make assumptions on others, and think you know all there is to know about them. Get to know about other countries, cultures, and people before you feel "a way" about them, or pass judgment on them. I have a link for you, about a slave who escaped to Mexico, and what happened to the slave catcher who dared cross into Mexico, chasing him. Link >ruclips.net/video/N0xGq-BCmUU/видео.htmlsi=aY3MUyQmTfcgNhK6
I hope if anytime you were racist against Mexican now you apologize.
God bless Mexico forever!!!!I thank La Republica Mexicana and Sr. Presidente Guerrero for helping us! Arriba los Mexicanos!!!!
Arriba todos los Hispanos de Latino América aleluya y amén bravissimo❤
VIVA la Mexico 🇲🇽
Working together we are strong . Working alone we are not
Best thing said
That is the reason why is not teach in the USA they don't want us to be united.they are afraid of us
I've heard of this before. There is a place in Kansas City, KS called Quindaro Ruins. It's along the river where slaves escaped Missouri which as a slave state into Kansas which as a free state. There was Underground Railroad activity that lead the Black people who escaped to Mexico. There is a town in Mexico where many of them settled and the population is visibly Black. I don't recall the name of it.
Muzquiz, Coahuila? I remember meeting black people from this area in Mexico when I was a child.
Oaxaca?
Kansas is Mexico 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
The name is Yanga in Veracruz State
El pueblo se llama Nacimiento.
Yanga fue el primer pueblo libre de toda América fundado por esclavos originarios de África que se rebelaron al Virreinato de la Nueva España.
I remember reading about interracial marriage and laws that were made to stop it. It also talked about how Hispanic (or Mexican) men in Texas would marry black American women and no one said anything to them about it.
Mexicanos . No Hispanics
If they were born in the US, then they are Americans. They are only Mexican if they were born in Mexico. 🤦♂🤦♂
I’m so proud of my ❤❤❤Mexican culture always giving a hand to people
Living in Trinidad but from New York. Education in California with many Mexican descendants. Nice to know this news. Thank you Mexico
Remember not Hispanics Mexicans mexicanos
My dad is from a region in Mexico that has a lot of African ancestry called Costa Chico. He did ancestry DNA and he is 96% black, (with heritage from Africa Not the Caribbean)yet his first language is Spanish and his family only knows of Mexico as their home even tho they all look like Africans😊. He came to Texas in the 90s and married my mom who is Mexican and here everyone assumes he’s black American.
Mexicans are native Americans. If you don't have Mexican native blood you're not Mexican. Also. Mexican women have to stop mixing with blvks.
That's really cool did you grow up learning English or Spanish as your mother language
Costa Chica
@@CamthaCupid thanks ☺️ i learn both at the same time. my first year was spanish but growing up my dad would speak to me using english and my mom used spanish that way i’d learn equally. the only thing is my english has a weird accent -not a spanish accent, just a weird accent.
@@Dovelunalove you're welcome that's really cool I always wished my first language was Spanish but it's my second that must've been a fun household with all the different traditions
One of the best things about learning history is that you don't have to rely on the textbooks in schools. There are so many things I have learned that textbooks never taught me.
This is important and something that should be taught in U.S. history. I think it would go a long way toward fostering a better modern-day relationship between these two groups in both countries.
Thank you to those that Helped🙏🏾🙏🏾
Those books will be banned soon
PLEASE STOP!!!!!!CALLING US HISPANIC OR LATINOS!!!!!!WE ARE MEXICAN AMERICAN 🇲🇽🇺🇸!!!!!!STOP IT
Tell them who you are, Mexicans not those other names that they are calling you.👍🏾
I had no idea it was Mexican and not hispanic. I will call you guys Mexicans from now on.
Mexican American are from " old Mexico 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
MEXICO is America!!
There's 27 continental American countries, the united states'🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 is just one of them!!
White people come from Europe!!
Mexicans and there reservation brothers and sisters, are the real, and only!!, North Americans!!!
The rest are immigrants, U.S. citizens 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Mexican. Not American
@@tecumseh4095thank you
Also happened in Florida, slaves from the Carolinas escaped and became free in Spanish Florida.
🇲🇽👈👀Mexican people always have been awesome😀👊
I been telling people this for the longest and it’s why I feel some way about how we do people who try to cross the border from Mexico
I didn’t know that! Thank you so much for this information!
Mexicans always helping ppl out that are in need.. n never seeking to be recognized.. That's my Mexican ppl.. Proud n Humble, hard working n always fighting for justice n peace.. God blessed Mexico..
Messycans are very anti black
“Bruh they done made me a officer in Mexico y’all gotta head south”
We’re United as a species and this makes it clear how United we were and we still could be.
We all are not the same species and the government knows that. It’s why they keep promoting mixing to hide this fact.
Recently I started doing some research about my Genealogy, I was not surprised that I have 46% mexican native and 45% Spanish What was surprising was my 8% african ancestry, my mom’s side is from Durango northern area, and according to my DNA I had a female ancestor 4 generations back, unfortunately we only know about 2 generations and very little about the 3rd one, I believe my great great great grandma was one of the freed people, I only hope that her life in Mexico was way better than in the land of the “free”.
I really enjoyed and appreciated you bringing awareness to this.
Hurry up and get those books before Republicans try to ban them.
My family is from the Rio Grande valley in South Texas. I heard stories from people there about helping runaway slaves to cross the Rio Grande river into Mexico. Here is a link that can explain some more on how South Texas Mexicans or as I call myself "Tejanos" came to help them escape from the "Gringo"
ruclips.net/video/oAByeTZto5U/видео.html
You have to say like it is Mexicans not Hispanic.
Thank for producing and sharing this story!
Respect to all of the Mexicans, Canadians, and American Abolitionists, who helped asylum seeking slaves. There were times Mexican civilians armed themselves, to protect asylum seeking slaves, from border crossing slave catchers.
Sad thing is, at the beginning of this video, there was an ad of an African American woman, fear mongering over Mexican migrants taking over the country, etc. SMH
This is amazing information, thanks for sharing the truth
Thanks for Sharing, this makes perfect sense! I wish this was more advertised , maybe then we could all get along more peacefully
The music is where it's so easy to see the inspiration from each others cultures.
As Chicano 5 generations born here in Tejas I hate that term Hispanic or Latino I'm not europe..Mexican Don't even use that term!
Thank you Hispanic community.
I love Mexican people 🙏🏽
The main reason Americans "liberated" Texas was to be able to have slaves you should be very proud,!
Thank you for this video.
From what I have read, Activist such as Luis Moreno and Charlotta Bass have mentioned that African Americans And Mexican Americans have gone through similar injustices. They have been put against each other because loving each other together and being strong together is a threat to the systemic injustices that we we live. This is why I loved the Last Wakanda Forever Movie.
I have to say that it’s ignorance and what was implanted in us by the people in high ranking politicians like the neo- nazis white supremacists who were hiding behind a suit and in a tie though out history “from boots to suits”. It has made these two groups dislike each other through generations. Especially strong to dislike and hurt each other in the jail system.
Love to all people! Including Asian, Indian and everyone else we share this world with.
Who I am and what do I know right !
I have been asked where I’m from. I’m Mexican American and we all look different. We have so many mixes.
I just took a dna test that shows that I have 9% Senegal 🇸🇳 where they had a center for slave trade. Another percentage is from Spain and and Portugal, Iran, European Jewish and Mexican Michoacán indigenous. It was shocking to learn that I have ancestors that lived and experienced the slave trade.
The first book I ever really read was “to be a slave”. And I was angry and cried by the stories. This book and watching “Roots”opened up more curiosity on how people can be so cruel. I became more interested to learn about history.
I have to say that in Mexico and other countries people African descent continue to experience the effect, disadvantage, and the systemic injustices through generation because of slavery. They are looked down on just because of the darker skin. If you are Mexican you most likely have a percentage of African American.
What so bizarre is that in Mexico racism is so common. The light Mexicans that look more European/white although might have a high percentage or African and indigenous roots, will be favored and have higher paying jobs and are most likely to be get roles in movies and novelas. They only hire the dark skinned Mexicans as servants and criminals in roles.
Media has made it appear that being lighter is being better. Brain washed people. My mom saw a baby with blue eyes and blonde hair and made a comment that the baby looked like an Angel. I’m looking at my moreno baby and I say, mom all babies look like angels.
Spoken well, young lady all of that is still going on regardless how much we are mix the darker skin people always get the brunt of everything.
They do thesame things in Hollywood US. CA.
@@conniegrant939
No.
No.
First of all I'm not reading all the bullshit that you wrote and second how is mexicans similar to black people Mexican is not a race it's a nationality everyone in that culture are not in the same category or boat let me tell you something people from that culture did not go thru slavery for 400years and did not got hung killed on the trees and black people were castrated and burned alive if you don't know black people are the most hated race Mexican is not a race and you non black people from Mexico it's not hated now blacks from Mexico there similar to us cuz there black like us and please Mexicans are down with white supremacists come on Mexicans love white people plus your close thats a fact Mexico is pure racist country towards blacks now Puerto Ricans there close to blacks that's a fact
I don’t know if they helped mine in particular but such a cool thing to hear!!!!!!! God bless everyone who did such a great thing and bless the future generations
We saved ourselves. Mexicos been Black since forever early as the Olmecs & Chichen itza. Slavery abolished in 1824 & last of the enslaved freed by 2nd Black President Vicente Guerrero in 1929. Lastly I eff wit Mexican ppl & some aspects of the culture. All we need & got is us. We saved our Mfkn Selves!
Mexico had a very generous inmigración policy.
If interested, there is a series of documentaries about racism in Latin America by Henry Luis Gates Jr. he talks about a group o slaves that scape to the countryside of Mexico. Their descendants inhabit a town. He also talks about two heroes of the Mexican independence who had African ancestry.
little to generous.
The video is about Mexico not latin America.
Meanwhile the other half of Mexicans teamed up with the confederates & owned slaves, especially in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, back when marijuana was LEGAL Georgia was one of the main grow states. Mexicans also fought side by side with the confederates against the U.S to NOT end slavery because they knew if the U.S won, their cash flow stopped. Mexicans came as far as Arizona to join the war, Arizona was one of the only BOLD states on the west coast to proudly say they joined the confederacy. But it was no way possible they could beat the Army which started recruiting free slaves, plus the hundreds of different revolt run-away groups that were killing off slave masters & overseers left & right in the Southeast of the U.S. it was a slaughter fest they had no win. “The United Daughter’s Of The Confederacy” re-wrote the history books & infiltrated the educational system & legal system. That’s what happens when some racist rednecks try to over-throw the Country & doesn’t get arrested for treason, the 40,000 confederates that surrendered were only sent back to their southern states to only push the 🇺🇸 agenda, but we all know that was a lie
Not Hispanics, MEXICANS helped. 🇲🇽💯
Mexico LINDO y querido
Great information. Thanks for enlightening..
Francisco Menéndez:
Born in The Gambia in West Africa, Menéndez was captured and sold into slavery, being purchased by European slave traders and shipped across the Atlantic to Carolina. He escaped into the Spanish province of Florida soon after, taking advantage of Spanish legislation promising freedom to all and much better treatment to other races fugitive slaves from the Southern colonies. Menéndez converted to Catholicism and enlisted in the colonial militia, settling down in a settlement created for free people of color by the Spanish authorities. Participating in numerous conflicts on the side of the Spanish Crown, Menéndez was recognized by the Spanish Crown for his loyalty and courage through the numerous conflicts he participated in.[1] Francisco was also recognized as the founder of San Agustín de la Nueva Florida, a village in Cuba
Black people in Mexico have always been considered beautiful and marry locals, most afromexicans are mixed-race. BTW, Mexico's IDs and documents don't include what race or etnicity people is like in the US
So what are you saying you racist scumbag that blacks are beautiful cuz there mixed nah they are fine cuz there black and that's bullshit most of them black people are not mixed there full black and yeah some mixed
Maybe In their neighborhoods. There aren't afrolatinos all over Mexico. Most of us don't have contact with them or know any.
@@lykndeltoro Maybe you haven't paid enough attention, because they are everywhere. Remember it's a mixed raced country, don't expect them to look like those that have only been mixed once, that is a stereotype of how african descendants "should look". If you still have doubts, take a look at the casta's descriptions.
The reason why t"Mexico would help the people that they used for forced slavery was because the president of Mexico was indigenous black!!! ""Vicente Guerrero"""...💯💯👍🏾👍🏾
I LOVE THIS!!! THANK YOU
Thank you!
Vicente Guerrero 1828 was Mexicos first Mexcan African president. And also the first North American black president
He wasn't even a 1/4 black.
@JimmyGarcia-hh2og his dad was African/Mexican and his mother was a native Mexican. Still making him the only president in Mexico from two different races.
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2ogside had a Afro and looked black tf you mean
Jose María Morelos y Pavón, other mexican historic icon, had black ancestry. So, we can say that black people helped to build current México.
@@JimmyGarcia-hh2ogYes he was Afro Mexican
Is not Hispanics, is Mexicans.
Mexico abolished slavery in 1837. Vermont abolished slavery in 1777.
Vicente Guerrero first mexican/African 2nd president in Mexico
From a free slave and Mexican parents
Look him up !!!!
It’s much deeper and beautiful 😭 mad respect ✊🏽 to Vicente
And now Mexico will have a female president this October
Mexicans not Hispanics!!
It’s all good bro! We got your back!
I praise God for our Mexican brother and sisters who helped liberate black slaves... by helping them Escape into Mexico!
This is very important information.
Mexicans! Not Hispanic or Latino
But blacks won't talk about this
Cause blacks don’t know this is my first time hearing of it and I’m 75 years of age.
Yeah they will if ppl like you weren't so rude and entitled
I never knew this. Thank you!
I bet they won't teach this piece of history in Florida.
❤❤❤ Sending so much love to my Latino & Meso American soul familia out there!!!
The video is about Mexicans not latinos. The only people helping sl Aves were Mexicans.
This is why we need to keep classical education and private schools! Today’s educational system doesn’t teach all the facts about not only Texas history but history in general.
Never heard this in my life
Damn 🔥🔥🔥🔥
BLESS YOU TO THE PEOPLE'S OF MEXICANS FOR HELPING MY ANCESTORS TO FREEDOM 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉AMEN AMEN 🙏 🙌 👏 ❤️ ☺️ 😊 🙏 🙌 👏 😊
I don’t remember where I did read that, back in the day, when slavery, some black people escaped from US farms to Mexico. Later patrons from us farms, did write to Mexico asking back for their slaves. So, the main person from Mexico did write back saying, we don’t have slaves in Mexico, we only have Mexicans. Sorry I do not remember details.
Excellent story 👏🏽
Salute to good people everywhere!!!
Generational Texan here. A 5th ggf of mine Nathaniel Jackson (1798) and wife Matilda Hicks (1801) Hidalgo, Tx., was part of this important story. They were considered an interracial couple in Georgia/Alabama. They helped many people start new lives in South Texas. I have many Mexican cousins.
History from school was almost all wrong. I went looking for African heroes in my lineage. ❤ There were none. 😔 I was mad at first. We were lied to. These people were Indian POWs forced into one-sided life-long contracts. Many of my ancestors were dropped from the Dawes rolls. They were not 100% of 1 tribe. They had linage of several tribes, with a couple of European lines, but none from Africa.
Some of us didn't cross the border back into Mexico😢. We stopped in Texas. Los Mascogos are Seminole Indians that came from the Carolinas down to Florida, then a stop in Oklahoma where their land grants *should have been honored - but weren't, then to Texas, and Mexico. There's no Africa in the story, but they had to detach us from the land to take the land from us. Even Camp Bullis military installation rt outside San Antonio, Texas is named after a "black" Seminole Indian scot.
Negro & Mulatto became Black. Black became African American. Now Indians are Africans. 😢 We're still here. From many tribes... one.