1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: The black president who abolished slavery before Lincoln. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: Hello, Mexico, noritos be in bernitos, I allthrow episodio dead. No, no, 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 2: sabia jezus you said this some Sabian soy sup presentador 4 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: be died? 5 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, y'all. Adin't know your boy was by 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: language like that, did you? Yeah? I just said no, 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: it alls Welcome back to another episode. If I didn't know, 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: maybe you didn't either. I'm your host, be Dot but 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: I said that jont in Espaniel, And why am I 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: showing off my Spanish too? Education to this episode, you 11 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: need your digital passport. We're hopping back on flight one 12 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: six one nine and we're headed through Mexico. But before 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: we jump on that flight, it is customary that we 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: give you three of the most useless facts you'll never 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: need ever, not a day in life. Primeta. Mexico abolished 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: slavery in eighteen twenty nine, while the US was still 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: very much committed to the nonsense Segundo. The man who 18 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:11,679 Speaker 1: signed it into low was Afro American e thirt set. 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: Some Americans were so mad about that decision that they 20 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: moved to Texas. So for today's episode, I'm gonna ask you, 21 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: did you know that there was a black president who 22 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: abolished slavery before Lincoln? And did you know Mayico Eboliolies 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: Glavitude threnthy thrace on yours aunts day Proclamacion de monts 24 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: a passion Because I didn't. 25 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,839 Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know. 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. 27 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 2: I didn't know. 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: I didn't know. Now, for those of you who aren't 29 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: as bi language as myself, I basically just asked if 30 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: you knew that Mexico abolished slavery thirty three years before 31 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: the Emancipation Proclamation, you need to know the name of 32 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: Vicente Guerrero was Afro Mexican, the revolutionary general. He was 33 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: the president of Maiko And yes, the same Guerrero that 34 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: the state of Guerrero in Mexico is named after. It 35 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 1: makes his money off of terrorism because Acapolco is there. 36 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 1: There's a story that says Vicent's pop tried to turn 37 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: him into the Spanish authorities during his revolution and his 38 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: response by Patrio as primetro that means the homeland comes first, 39 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: and that became Mexico's motto. Vicente was born to a 40 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: mixed race family. He rose through the ranks during Mexico's 41 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: War of Independence and became one of the most powerful 42 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: leaders in the country. Now here's the part that don't 43 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: make the US textbooks. When Guerrero became president in eighteen 44 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: twenty nine, he looked at slavery and said, Jedholmes, We're 45 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: done with that. Not gradually, not with conditions, not with 46 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: no loopoles. Abolished immediately, no committee, no focus group, the 47 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: original Nike just did it, and that was huge. Mayico 48 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: immediately became a place where enslaved black people could escape 49 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: and be free. There was no fugitive slave laws, no 50 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: returning people to bondage. Different accounts estimate between three thousand 51 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: and five thousand enslaved people escaped to Mexico before the 52 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: Civil War. It was entire communities of black seminoles and 53 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: freedom seekers in cole Willa. And this is where things 54 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 1: get familiar. American slave holders hated it. They started bringing 55 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: in slave people into Mexico territories anyway, especially Texas, and 56 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: demanding exceptions like entitled pompous white people of that time 57 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: normally did. But Mayko said, nah, no exception. So when 58 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: people talk about Texas want independence, understand this. Slavery was 59 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: a major reason may Coo was too black friendly, too 60 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: anti slavery, too unwilling to protect American wealth built on bondage. 61 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 1: And that's the global part that they don't love teaching, 62 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: and of course percent that Gorretro paid for it. He 63 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: was eventually overthrown and executed, but his decision couldn't be undone. 64 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: Slavery never returned to Mexico, and that's impact. A century 65 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: after Guerretro made freedom law in Mexico, CARTERGI Woodson created 66 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: Negro History Week because stories like these were never going 67 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: to cross the border. Woods in New Black History didn't 68 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: stop at the United States plantations. It's shaped nation, and 69 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: if we don't document it, freedom starts looking like it 70 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 1: only came from one place. Eyr Nolo Sabia, He's house. 71 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: Tout Poko, Congratulations, your passport has been stamped. 72 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 2: Next off Japan.