Prezelski: Hidalgo’s shouts aroused Mexico’s Indians to seek freedom
According to the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was the farmers at Concord who began the American Revolution with the famous “shot heard round the world.”
But for the country just south of us, it was not a shot but a shout that began the Mexican War of Independence that freed it from its colonial oppressors.
As many revolutions often do, Mexico’s began modestly enough. A group of mixed-race intellectuals established a social club and literary club in the town of Querétaro. During the meetings they discussed independence, but they were not republicans. What they envisioned was equality with Spain while remaining within the Spanish Empire.
So the group was not anti-Spain, and neither was it anti-church.
A prominent member of the group was Ignacio Allende, a young landowner who was passionately addicted to bullfighting. It was Allende who invited Miguel Hidalgo y Costillo, the parish priest of the town of Dolores, to join the group.
By that time Hidalgo was already approaching 60, and his writings were widely read. In fact, some of the new ideas about which Hidalgo wrote had already stirred up interest.
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