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 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. ...