Mexico's 1st Black President Freed the Slaves in 1829

Mexico's first Black president was Vincente Guerrero, a mixed-race man of African and indigenous descent. In 1829 he abolished slavery, which consisted of indigenous and African peoples. Interestingly, the pervasive depictions of Guerrero are posthumous -- painted decades after his death. So we really don't know what he looked like. Meanwhile, many current-day Mexican people can trace their heritage to a Black ancestor. The genetic legacy of Mexico's once significant number of colonial-era Blacks is evidenced in non-Black-appearing Mexicans having trace amounts of sub-Saharan African DNA found in the average Mexican. Today, much of the African-descended population has been absorbed into surrounding Mestizo, Mulatto, and indigenous populations. Reference: Sage Journals Reference: additional link concerning Primodial Blacks in South America Note: You may need to research the references yourself -- looks like there is some kind of cyber infringement on my reference links.