Vicente Guerrero - Wikipedia
WEBVicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña[2] (Spanish: [biˈsente raˈmoŋ ɡeˈreɾo]; baptized 10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831) was a Mexican military officer and statesman who became the nation's second president. He was one of the leading generals who fought against Spain during the Mexican War of Independence.
Vicente Guerrero: The first Afro-Mexican President of the Americas
WEBJun 22, 2020 · 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).
Vicente Guerrero: The Black Hero Who Showed Mexico that Skin …
WEBFeb 9, 2022 · One of the most notable Afro-Latino figures in history is Vicente Guerrero, the second elected president of Mexico. Guerrero was mixed-race , of both African and Indigenous descent. This ethnic combination was uncommon for …
Vicente Guerrero (1783-1831) - Blackpast
WEBJan 22, 2007 · Guerrero was elected the second president of Mexico in 1829. As president, Guerrero went on to champion the cause not only of the racially oppressed but also of the economically oppressed. Guerrero formally abolished slavery on September 16, 1829.
Skip Gates: The World’s First Black President Was In Mexico
WEBNov 5, 2012 · The Harvard historian says Vincente Guerrero, "the Abraham Lincoln of Mexico," was the world's first black president.
Afro-Mexicans in the Mexican War of Independence - Wikipedia
WEBThe initial movement for independence was led by the American-born Spaniard priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in central Mexico. White Mexicans quickly abandoned the movement for independence which had become more of a social revolution, with Indians, Blacks, mixed-race castas, and other plebeians seeking social equality.
Vicente Guerrero | Independence leader, Revolutionary, President
WEBAug 6, 2024 · Vicente Guerrero (born Aug. 10, 1782, Tixtla, Mex.—died Feb. 14, 1831, Chilapa) was a hero of the Mexican efforts to secure independence. Guerrero began his military career in 1810, and soon the early Mexican independence leader José Maria Morelos commissioned him to promote the revolutionary movement in the highlands of southwestern Mexico.
Project MUSE - The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico's First Black ...
WEBThe Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s First Black Indian President. By Theodore G. Vincent. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. Vicente Guerrero was the foremost surviving military hero of Mexico’s wars of independence, and one of the few great figures who had fought for independence throughout the entire period of 1810 to ...
The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s First Black Indian President …
WEBMay 1, 2003 · Vincent has several laudable objectives in this study of Vicente Guerrero. He wrote the work for a popular audience, making it one of the few histories that deal with early-nineteenth-century Mexico written in a style designed to appeal to the nonspecialist.
WEBVICENTE GUERRERO. general and president Vicente Guerrero, 1781-1831. Guerrero was of African, Indian, and Spanish heritage, and he was raised in a colonial setting in which anyone African in Mexico was subjected by the Spaniards to …