Posted on 06/24/2021 7:00:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most do not remember or acknowledge that after all Confederate Slaves were freed, there were slaves held in Northern states until the 13th Amendment was implemented.
Union slave states like Missouri legally held them. But, most Union states turned a blind eye to slave holders. Recent historical analysis shows that Oregon may have had as many as 800 slaves held after Juneteenth.
Juneteenth: When Republicans freed the last of the Democrats slaves.
KInda like that Kwaanza thingy.
Juneteenth: When Republicans freed the last of the Democrats slaves.
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That’s the message that needs to be broadcast far and wide.
General Grant had a slave, one of the lest slave in the US.
Not at all like Kwanzaa. Juneteenth ... June 19 ... was the day Texas got news about the slaves being freed. That's why blacks in Texas have celebrated the day for many, many years. Texas made it an official state holiday back in the 80s. It's not made up.
What about Indian tribes which kept their slaves?
How do people know it stopped on June 19th? It should be the date of the 13th Amendment.
Among the 27 were Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. States that chimed in later included Iowa, California, and Oregon. Crazy Joe's home State (Delaware) initially rejected the 13th Amendment, and didn't see fit to ratify until the 20th century rolled around...
;^)
Finally, somebody who knows this little detail. Among those legions of history majors working as staffers in congress, at the DNC and RNC, at all the "news" networks, not one has a clue about the historical record (or any curiosity to research).
BTW, in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer in Aug 1865, it was reported that KY still had 65,000 slaves in July.
Even libs can (maybe) grasp that July comes after Juneteenth.
Union slave states like Missouri legally held them.
Juneteenth will just become another day of twerking and boarding up store windows soon enough
Libtards are still racist as we see every single day now.
There were abolition laws in some of the border states. I’m not sure if Missouri passed one prior to the ratification of The 13th Amendment or not. Many of those laws called for gradual, rather than immediate, emancipation though, so it’s still possible that there were slaves held legally even if an abolition law had been passed.
'Juneteenth' also let's us forget that Joe Biden's Delaware didn't ratify the 13th Amendment until 1901...
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Juneteenth was derived from an ORDER by a Reconstruction era Union General, a self promoting Gordon Granger in command of the few Union forces in Texas at the time
It was not a law passed, as the 13th Amendment was (albeit passed during the 1865 year- said to be by 27 of the 36 states- a false number btw, since it did not include any Confederate state in 1865 (they had no representation in Congress in 1865) for the post war Nation, by the then Congress. Notably Delaware (Biden’s home state) and Kentucky (Border state) did not pass in their legislatures the 13th Amendment. That is to say they fudged the numbers- there could not have been 27 of 36 states absent KY and Delaware, there being 11 Confederate States at the time who neither passed it in their legislatures and couldn’t have had any voice in Congress.
All that aside— as D’Souza points out— the demonrats of the Union States opposed the 13 th Amendment, so demons of today could hardly celebrate this as a National Holiday vs. the really meaningless propaganda of “juneteenth” order no. 3 of a nobody Union general. Should note also, it took the 13th Amendment to force the Choctaw Nation to release its slaves-Granger was unable (hadn’t the troops).
Would be interesting to ask the brainless demented Biden why his STATE was a SLAVE state throughout the Civil War. Answer: to this day they still are a chattel corporate registry for DEBT slavery for the entire country.
I am of the opinion that if conservatives respond by asserting that the reason for the holiday is to celebrate when the Republicans were able to finally release black slaves from their Democrat masters, that the holiday will soon fall into disuse.
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