Texas, for instance, is not all desert and sagebrush. Sometimes, she says, Texas itself is an enigma to much of the rest of America, and mythology replaces facts in people’s minds. Juneteenth, she says, or June 19, 1865, “was the day that enslaved African Americans in Texas were told that slavery had ended, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed…” It was “shocking” on two levels: that slavery was over, and that Black Texans were suddenly “on an equal plane of humanity with whites…” That, she says, “was of enough consequence to the entire nation that it should be celebrated nationwide.”
|a Slaves |x Emancipation |z United States. |a African Americans |x Social life and customs. |a African Americans |x Anniversaries, etc. |a African Americans |0 |z Texas |z Galveston |0 |x History. |a Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond.
|a On Juneteenth / |c Annette Gordon-Reed. |a 1665108401 |q (sound recording |q Blackstone Retail CD) |a 170503442X |q (sound recording |q Blackstone Library CD)
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