content: The video is full of historical inaccuracies. Mexico was not concerned about slavery from a moral standpoint. Slavery was outlawed in Mexico because at the time, the majority of Mexico was a peasant society. They already had a system in place utilizing the massive peasant class for productive output. Importing slaves from overseas would have disrupted that system and put the peasants out of work resulting in civil unrest. The peasant class was already a source of instability in Mexico, so the aristocracy wanted to keep them busy. The idea that Mexicans care about black people is ludicrous. The concept of la raza (the race) originates in Spain during the reconquista era. When Spain colonized Western North America, Central America, and South America, they imposed la casta, the racial caste system to divide the society up by race by law. Whites at the top, blacks on the bottom, and all the different shades of brown in between. La casta was legally phased out after the colonial period ended, but it was in practice for over 300 years and became a fundamental component of Latin American culture. Even though it is no longer officially enforced by law, it remains unofficially in the culture. With few exceptions, still to this day, your social status is determined by your race in all of Latin America. Mexico, which declared independence in 1821, did not even grant native-born Mexican blacks citizenship until December of 2015. Texas was mostly an inhospitable wilderness subject to constant Indian depredations and harsh climate. Even though Mexico claimed the territory, the central and western regions were dominated by the Apache and Comanche, so not much development had taken place. Mexico had no real control over Texas and the USA noticed this and began making plans to eventually seize Texas from Mexico. In defense, in order to strengthen the legitimacy of their rule over Texas, Mexico initiated the empressario plan to settle and further develop Texas. The plan initially failed because Mexico was unable to convince enough people to risk their lives to settle in hostile Indian country. As a last resort, Mexico allowed American empressarios in to settle the land and they were overwhelmingly successful. Mexico did outlaw slavery in 1829-1830, but there was never any strong rule of law in Mexico, especially out on the Texas frontier. The American colonists took advantage of Mexico's weak authority and pretty much did what they wanted to do and jumpstarted the Texas economy with business practices technically illegal in Mexico. Even the Crown Prince of Prussia attempted to establish a Prussian feudal state in Texas. Immigration to Texas was officially banned, but the Americans illegally immigrated there anyway by the tens of thousands and outnumbered the Mexican colonists within half a decade. The American and European colonists brought with them an entirely different culture and value system which was entirely at odds with Mexican culture and didn't agree with the way Mexico governed the territory. Fearing the "Anglicanization of Texas," Mexico began to clamp down on Texas autonomy. Grassroots separatist movements sprang up around the territory in response and the USA exploited the situation and began to clandestinely back some of these movements. In 1826, a group of Texan colonists rebelled unsuccessfully. In 1836, Santa Ana took power and turned Mexico into an authoritarian dictatorship and tried to bring Texas back under Mexican control. Santa Ana sent troops to Texas to disarm the populace sparking off the Texas Revolution. The only reason Mexico tried to do anything about slavery in Texas was to hinder USA hegemony in the region.