July 4th is only the date

[Gonz]

We abolished slavery in September 27th 1821.

11 years after your independence from Spain. tsk-tsk-tsk.

They were slaves in Nueva España, not in México.

Same thing. The Europeans may have been in charge but it was Mexican soil.

Luis, no matter how you come at this, the fact exists that neither of us live in a current slave holding country & neither of us can change our slave holding past. Our forefathers took care of the problem without our help.

 

[Luis G]

11 years after your independence from Spain. tsk-tsk-tsk.

tsk tsk tsk....Slavery has always been illegal in Mexico. On Sept 16th 1810 Hidalgo declared war on Spain and informally abolished slavery (mistakenly taken as our Independence date, thou we didn't became independent that day), on Sept 27th 1821 is when we got the independence from Spain and slavery was formally abolished in the new nation, Mexico.

Same thing. The Europeans may have been in charge but it was Mexican soil.

Luis, no matter how you come at this, the fact exists that neither of us live in a current slave holding country & neither of us can change our slave holding past. Our forefathers took care of the problem without our help.

I wasn't actually going in that direction. I'm rather disgusted when people misunderstand the history, for example, Hidalgo and Morelos fought against Spain because the sons of spaniards born here weren't allowed to have political power, they declared slaves free so they could fight with them. At least they made them fight with them not for them, but that's another subject.

Same thing with your history, they wanted to rule as well, they kept slavery thou, they didn't give freedom to the people. Indeed, they fought for your Independence and they should be honoured for that, but I'd rather honour Abraham Lincoln for freedom.