Citation
Queda abolida la esclavitud en la República, sin excepcion alguna, April 5, 1837, translated excerpt in Andrew J. Torget, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2015), 190
Excerpt
Mexico (House Divided Project)
…slavery is hereby abolished, without any exception, throughout the Republic…
Related Sources
- The Laws of Texas (Texas Slavery Project)
- Alice Baumgartner, Slavery Laws in Texas and Mexico During the 1830s (CSPAN)