MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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They snuck them in illegally
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They ignored the law and brought them openly
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They converted enslaved people into “indentured servants”
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Most never brought enslaved people
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fugitive enslaved people got to Mexico in many different ways. Some went on foot, while others rode horses or snuck aboard ferries bound for Mexican ports.
Detailed explanation-2: -#blackhistory: On September 15, 1829, Afro-Mestizo Mexican President Vicente Ramon Guerrero issued the Guerrero Decree, prohibiting slavery in most of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Underground Railroad also led to Mexico. The Underground Railroad also ran south-not back toward slave-owning states but away from them to Mexico, which began to restrict slavery in the 1820s and finally abolished it in 1829, some thirty-four years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Detailed explanation-4: -This military conflict was primarily motivated by the business interest of expanding slavery in America. Despite the 1836 Texas Revolution, from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory.