WHy did Slaves not run south to Mexico for their freedom??
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When you think of freedom you think....MEXICO???\n\nThere was no freedom in mexico. Slaves did not speak spanish and would have been turned over to the nearest slave trader for a couple of tortilla's...
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Which direction. Going south requires nothing. No ID, no car, no money. Going north requires a Coyote, money, a safe house, etc.\nI have previously lived illegally in Mexico for two years. I was never asked by anyone what my resident status was. I got a job in a Mexican hotel and rented a house and had all my utilities hooked up. Still no one asked me for any papers.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850 and said that if a slave from the south escaped to the north, the northern people would have to return it. People in the north didn't like this law (or slavery) so they often disobeyed it. It also caused the Underground Railroad to change its route to Canada so the escaping slaves wouldn't be returned.
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Because Mexico is south of USA
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They are not here because when the Aztecs occupied  Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico,  they were forced out by catastrophic events some huge storm from the pacific, and a great drought forced them to migrate further south, they ended up in the valley of Mexico in 1193 A.D.  Just type in ( origins of the Aztec people) and scroll down to No. 2 from Mississippi to Mexico, it will tell their story.
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Well,obviously they were stressed to even have to use them or even run away.There was danger of being caught and maybe killed,or at the very least,flogged or have their toes chopped off.But despite all this stress,it was even moreso to remain as slaves,some of them with bad masters.\n\nIf these Brave people had their ways,they would just as soon live in the state,city/town of their choice as Free Americans.
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Because the slaves were not counted as citizens in the slave states. They wound up passing a bill that stated that the slaves would count as 1/3 a regular person so it would more  equal.
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Consider this- the North had the factories and the ability to ship goods produced by those factories for export, the South had plantations with a lot fewer ways of shipping the goods (cotton, etc.) to the factories where the cotton, etc. was made into other things(virtually no way to export goods).
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let's look at the facts...\n\nA. Lincoln freed the slaves... his opponents did not want this to happen in the south... he was a Republican...\n\nB. in the 1960's Republicans were fought with everything they could to stop the civil rights movement... prominent republican figures like strom thurmond and jessie helms are clearly not in the line of Lincoln... \n\nhow do you explain this difference?
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Would you have stayed in the south if you were a slave?  No.  They were looking for jobs and racial tolerance by going north.
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Mexico's history is huge. But the main reasons of Spaniards coming and conquering Mexico and its people living there is the huge amounts of gold, silver and other beaufifull stones the native people would use and wear. Also the cities and temples where mainly covered in such way. Since Spain was looking for resources to maintain its power in Europe, they send explorators to go and search after the myth of the city of gold (remember the movie "the road to el dorado"?). The myth  was created by the same Spaniards as a way to keep their men going in the long journeys more, and more into the desert part of Mexico. They would make false promises that they would be so rich, they will never have to work in the rest of their days. In the religious part, the Spanish Kings send the missionaries to 'educate' the natives. But we all know that this as only a way to keep the natives from revealing against the spanish invasors. And that is also the beggining of catholicism in Mexico.\nThere is a lot of information available everywhere. I hope I have helped you where to start for your paper.
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fugitive slave laws allowed for slaves who escaped to be brought back into slavery even after they made it to the north.\n\nThey made it harder for African Americans to be free and escape slavery.
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Third, traveling on the “Underground Railroad” was a dangerous journey due to harsh weather. Travelers had to keep going for ten to twenty miles until they reached a safe house where they would eat and rest for the night. It didn’t matter if it were raining or snowing; the slaves focused on being freed. During this time, many people tried to track down these escaping slaves and take them back to their plantations for a reward, otherwise known as a bounty. In spite of these risks, Harriet made nineteen trips on the “Underground Railroad”, rescuing family members to freedom.
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because all they want is a job because in mexico they dont pay very well\nthey sould be free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They didn't choose to do so.  They were forced into slavery.
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The importing of slaves was outlawed before the Civil War. Slaves were "home grown" by breeding slaves in the US.
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I'm guessing it may be a combination of ignorance, arrogance and a sense of entitlement.  When pressed, many of the illegals and their supporters openly admit that they consider the Southwestern US to be "occupied" territory, taken from Mexico.  This is simply a symptom of that view.