Vicente Guerrero’s role as freedom fighter got underway in earnest when he impressed General José María Morelos, who was also of African descent, in 1810.

Skip Gates, the Harvard historian and editor of The Root, writes that Mexico had an elected leader of African descent – Vicente Guerrero–Â five decades before the Abraham Lincoln moved to ...

Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s first black president, was his nation’s Lincoln. In 1829 he issued Mexico’s slavery abolition decree (which led a few years later to Texas slave holders taking Texas out of ...

Vicente Guerrero and José María Morelos y Pavón — two men of African descent (Afro-Mexicanos) — played a crucial role in the development of the new country of Mexico. ...