History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mexico Abolishes Slavery
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The idea
The Mexican government abolished slavery in eighteen twenty-nine, and tried to accommodate the Texas settlers by maintaining the fiction that their enslaved workers were indentured servants.
In practice
A legal pretence extended to keep American slaveholders in place.
Where people slip
The slaveholders distrusted Mexican intentions and wanted Texas to become a new United States slave state.
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