ABSTRACT
During the period of the Texas Revolution, abolitionists asked about the possibility of the emigration of blacks from the United States to Mexico. It is important to point out that early American abolitionists were not primarily concerned with black freedom but rather white freedom from blacks. Pursuing colonization efforts in lands further from the concentration of the American population is critical to understanding the motivation for doing so. The movements stemmed from the racist desire to rid America of the enslaved and to send them to an area where another nation could tailor to them, a nation that was seen as inferior to the United States: Mexico. This established United States racial hegemony early on. The then current Vice President Valentín Gómez Farías responded to the request of migration in 1833:
If they [Negro slaves] would like to come, we will offer them land for cultivation, plots for houses where they can establish towns, and tools for work, under the obligation [that they will] obey the laws of the country and the authorities already established by the Supreme Government of the Federation.1
