Status Updates From Vicente Guerrero, Mexican L...

Very interesting to see how Guerrero was hated by a lot of people but still came out in top because of his genius. Mi rey

“But virtually the same conditions that were giving impetus to the separatist movement in Spain’s North American viceroyalty, were also widening the breach between the mother country and her subjects on the southern continent.”
Let’s go rebels let’s go

The caste system worked differently than I realized - pure natives were treated better than those mixed with Spanish blood, which is surprising.

Interesting section spotlighting the injustices of the Spanish crown:
- They did not pay the tobacco planters the full price for their tobacco; in fact they paid an extremely low price and then manufactured it or resold it from there (presumably at a higher price)
- They however did not impede the cattle business (because it wasn’t up to par with Spain’s at the time anyway).
- More notes but character limit

Lovely to see that faculty of UT Austin assisted with this book :)