How did slavery end in Mexico, and was was life like for black Mexicans in the wake of emancipation? How did this process compare to Reconstruction and Jim Crow in the US?

by TendingTheirGarden
drylaw

I haven't studied the US much so can't give you a detailed comparison. But a few key differences between Mexican and US emancipation do come to mind:

At least initially in colonial Mexico most African slaves worked in households, different from chattel slavery. - - The importance of slavery had diminuished by later colonial times, so that the abolishment had less concrete consequences. - - All this also has to do with the intermixing between Europeans, Africans and Native Americans since the beginning of the colonisation in Mexico, which made it harder to uphold clear racial barriers (as described above): so quite a different thing from the One Drop Rule.