Analysis Of The Outlook Of Slavery By Jaime E. Rodriguez

Araseli Peña Villa

CLAS 114

March 8, 2016

The Outlook of Slavery

Looking back to when the European nations found and settled in American land, different parts of America were established and influenced by French, British, and Spanish empires. Due to the differential Monarch controls in different sections of America, all of the European empires had their own impacts on the New World’s social, economic, and political structures. In addition to the development of America, slavery was the most prominent issue that was viewed differently throughout the diverse regions in America. The author Jaime E. Rodriguez states, “The social and political structure, resource base, and, most of all, the timing and context of each region’s emancipation affected

The British Americans were known to hold different cultural views as stated by Rodriguez, “The English experience was significantly different…they did not constitute the inclusion of fundamentally different cultures (Rodriguez, 134). The racial separation between the British Americans and any other cultures lead to the establishment of African American slaves. Throughout time the colonies began to expand their lands with the help of slave work and became known to be a stable developing democratic government. On the other hand, New Spain did not become emancipated from their mother land until later times and was known to be coherent with other cultures. As supported by Rodriguez, “The Viceroyalty of New Spain gradually became a multi-racial society whose members were integrated culturally and economically” (Rodriguez, 138). This holds to be true that the process of establishing the U.S. government was based on segregation of other cultures other than of British decent; in contrast, the Mexican government was slowly developing based on the integration of all participating cultures and

citizens to occupy Coahuila- Texas and become Mexican citizens in exchange for land and delayed taxes. Also, the new integrated Mexican citizens were to obey with the Mexican constitution. This act of government expansion strategy took a downside hit when Anglo-Texans refused to comply with the Mexican constitution and wanted to re-establish slavery to their livelihood. Outraged to find out that the new integrants were not complying with the Mexican constitution and were utilizing slaves, Mexico began an unsuccessful revolt against Anglo-Texans. As stated by the author, “Texans had blunted some of the effects of governmental hostility to slavery, but defense of the institution ultimately rested on sympathetic and weak local governments that failed to enforce antislavery measures” (Lack, 184). This statement clearly indicated that the Mexican government was very unstable and incompatible with the slavery systems in