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How Did a Popular Rebellion End in an Elite Settlement? - The Two Mexican Independences | Sleepy Facts About History
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In September 1810, a priest in the small town of Dolores issued a summons that drew thousands of hungry and subordinated people into the streets, sparking a massive popular rebellion. Yet the independence Mexico finally won eleven years later was negotiated by the very elites who had spent those years suppressing the uprising. The Mexican independence movement is not a simple story of national destiny fulfilled, but a complex account of how a social explosion forced a question that its…
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