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Independence leader José María Morelos y Pavón declares slavery abolished in Mexico in the documents Sentimientos de la Nación. United Provinces: Law of Wombs passed by the Assembly of Year XIII. Slaves born after 31 January 1813 will be granted freedom when they are married, or on their 16th birthday for women and 20th for men, and upon ...
Miguel Hidalgo promulgated the abolition in Guadalajara on 6 December 1810. President Guadalupe Victoria declared slavery abolished too, but it was President Vicente Guerrero who made the decree of Abolition of Slavery on 15 September 1829. #Slavery is abolished in the Republic. Therefore are free those who until this day were considered as slaves.
A key achievement of his presidency was the abolition of slavery in most of Mexico. The slave trade had already been banned by the Spanish authorities in 1818, a ban that had been reconfirmed by the nascent Mexican government in 1824.
Vinson, Ben, III and Matthew Restall, eds. Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 2009. Walker, Tamara J. "He Outfitted His Family in Notable Decency: Slavery, Honour, and Dress in Eighteenth-Century Lima, Peru," Slavery & Abolition 30, no. 3 (2009) 383-402.
April 1 – Vicente Guerrero is sworn as President of Mexico. September 16 - President Guerrero formally abolished slavery in Mexico, except in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the south of the country; December 4 – the Plan of Jalapa is formed in Xalapa demanding the removal of Vicente Guerrero as president
The territories of Utah and New Mexico would have slavery from the time they were acquired by America in 1848 until July 1862, when the United States banned slavery in all federal territories. However, Utah had just 29 slaves (0.07% of the total population) and New Mexico had no slaves in the 1860 census. [28]
2. Abolition of slavery. It was ratified by the Decree of Abolition of Slavery on September 15, 1829, by President Vicente Guerrero. [10] 3. Free public, secular education. 5. Freedom of vocation, with a ban on contracts with loss of freedom for the sake of work, education, or religious vows. 7. Freedom of speech. 10. Right to bear arms. 12.
Slaves landed in Mexico by country from 1450 to 1810. ... The abolition of slavery was part of the ideology of the insurgents during the Mexican War of Independence.