Prior to 1640, when the regular slave trade to New Spain ended, Colonial Mexico was the second largest slaveholding society in the New World.
While it seems logical to assume that these unique demographic conditions may have created a situation ripe for slaves to challenge their oppr.
Even so, slaves of African descent in Mexico were surrounded by a much larger indigenous majority, and by the second half of the seventeenth century there were more free Afromexicans than slaves in the colony.
Prior to 1640, when the regular slave trade to New Spain ended, Colonial Mexico was the second largest slaveholding society in the New World