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The Southbound Underground Railroad to Mexico
The Underground Railroad ran south to Mexico. Black Seminoles, Mascogos & Mexico's Black president who abolished slavery. In 1829, Afro-Mexican President Vicente Guerrero freed every slave in Mexico while Texas was still Mexican territory.
When Texas seceded in 1836 to protect slavery, 3,000 to 10,000 Black freedom seekers walked 150 miles through the Nueces Strip to freedom in Coahuila. Mexico refused every US Fugitive Slave extradition demand in 1850, 1851, 1853 and 1857.
Mexico gave them land. Black Seminoles led by Wild Cat and John Horse (Captain Juan Caballo) founded El Nacimiento…
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