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- Vicente Guerrero - Wikipedia
Several towns in Mexico are named in honor of this famous general, including Vicente Guerrero in Durango, Vicente Guerrero in Baja California and the Colonia Guerrero in Mexico City
- Mexico Once Had a Black President — But He Was Executed!
Vicente Guerrero is the first and only Black person to have become President of Mexico He served as President of the country from April 1829 until February 1831 when he was captured and then assassinated
- Vicente Guerrero: The first Afro-Mexican President of the Americas
Vicente Guerrero, the first black president of Mexico, who was also a version of Abraham Lincoln for the nation In 1829 President Guerrero issued a Mexico-specific decree to abolish slavery (which led to Texas slave owners removing Texas itself from Mexico a few years later)
- The Story of Vicente Guerrero: Mexico’s First Black President
Vicente Guerrero was the first Black president in Mexico and the first in the Americas, decades before any such leadership would be seen in countries like the United States His identity mattered—he challenged white supremacist structures not only by leading, but by legislating justice and equality
- The Black Mexican President Who Abolished Slavery in Texas Long Before . . .
Vicente Guerrero (1782–1831) was a Mexican revolutionary general, statesman, the second president of Mexico, and the first Afro-Indigenous head of state in the Americas
- Mexico’s First Black President - Institute of the Black World 21st . . .
Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president, was his nation’s Lincoln In 1829 he issued Mexico’s slavery abolition decree (which led a few years later to Texas slave holders taking Texas out of Mexico)
- The Forgotten Black President Who Ended Slavery in Mexico: Vicente . . .
Long before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a man of African and Indigenous descent changed the course of history in Mexico His name was Vicente Ramón Guerrero, and in 1829, he became the second president of Mexico — and the first of Afro-Mexican heritage
- Skip Gates: The Worlds First Black President Was In Mexico
Skip Gates, the Harvard historian and editor of The Root, writes that Mexico had an elected leader of African descent – Vicente Guerrero–Â five decades before the Abraham Lincoln moved to
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