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Juneteenth and Modern-Day Slavery
townhall.com ^ | 6/18/2020 | Ryan Bomberger

Posted on 06/19/2020 7:47:48 AM PDT by rktman

This holiday commemorates the eventual announcement to slaves in Texas, on June 19th 1865, that President Abraham Lincoln had set them free.

Even CNN once acknowledged this before their descent into 24-7 fake news: “It was the Africans themselves who were enslaving their fellow Africans, sending them to the coast to be shipped outside." These words were from African researcher Akosua Perbi of the University of Ghana who specializes in the study of indigenous slavery in Ghana.

It’s not black history. It’s American history.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: history; juneteenth
Nicely done Mr. Bomberger. Thanks.
1 posted on 06/19/2020 7:47:48 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves held by the Democrats.


2 posted on 06/19/2020 7:51:29 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - Dad's wisdom)
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To: rktman

The holiday nobody ever heard about before this year.


3 posted on 06/19/2020 7:58:18 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98
I had.😁
4 posted on 06/19/2020 8:05:34 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Blacks are slaves to the demorap party plantation.


5 posted on 06/19/2020 8:07:22 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: rktman

Many new holidays were created during the French Revolution as well. The reign of terror was hectic and the rigors of non stop guillotine exhausting. A day off was really needed.

Juneteenth will give white liberals a chance to self flagellate and beg for forgiveness. Blacks can enjoy seeing white people grovel.

Like hot dogs and hamburgers are associated with July 4th picnics, I thing pigs feet should be the food associated Juneteenth.

Public workers already have too many holiday days off. I think the Thanksgiving holiday should be abolished. Celebrating the survival of white colonists is an insult to native Americans. It has to go.


6 posted on 06/19/2020 8:11:58 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: rktman

I’m good with replacing MLK holiday with ‘Junteenth’, or Emancipation Day in its place.


7 posted on 06/19/2020 8:22:03 AM PDT by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: rktman

I’m good with replacing MLK holiday with ‘Junteenth’, or Emancipation Day in its place.


8 posted on 06/19/2020 8:22:20 AM PDT by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: RideForever

Agree 100%.


9 posted on 06/19/2020 8:24:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: taxcontrol

It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves.
And the democrats are still pissed about it.


10 posted on 06/19/2020 8:31:19 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: taxcontrol; rktman
It commemorates the day that the REPUBLICAN President set free the slaves held by the Democrats.

Juneteenth commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger announced to slaves in Texas that Lincoln had freed the slaves in 1863, an afactual statement.

On June 19, 1865, Lincoln was dead and Democrat Andrew Johnson was president.

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863.

Lawful slavery persisted in the Union state of Delaware until December 6, 1865, when the 13th Amendment ended legal slavery in the United States.

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2016/05/12/archivest-unearths-document-listing-last-sussex-slave-owners/84255486/

Archivist unearths document listing last Sussex slave owners

Molly Murray
The News Journal
Published 10:52 a.m. ET May 12, 2016
Updated 3:39 p.m. ET May 12, 2016

Georgetown farmer James Anderson still owned eight slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and after the Civil War came to an end in April 1865.

It was only after the 13th Amendment became law on Dec. 6, 1865, that slaves in Delaware were freed.

A newly discovered document, found by a state archivist at the Delaware Public Archives, lists the last remaining slave owners in Sussex County – men and women who among themselves claimed ownership to 525 humans. At the time, they were treated as property and taxed as such.

The records show up in a Sussex County Assessment roll that Stephen P. Marz, director of public archives, believes likely dates back to 1866. The county government, then called Levy Court, wanted to determine how much revenue from taxes on slaves they would lose, Marz said. The tally in 1865 dollars was $17,131. Today, it would be closer to $255,000.


11 posted on 06/19/2020 8:51:09 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: conservative98

The holiday nobody ever heard about before this year....

Or to be more precise, before the Trump rally was scheduled for the 19th in Tulsa.


12 posted on 06/19/2020 9:08:35 AM PDT by Ceebass (A man riding by on a galloping horse wouldn't notice)
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To: rktman

How about Juneteenth and old time slavery. Slavery didn’t end in the US on Juneteenth, only in Texas which was the last state in the Confederacy for emancipation to be enforced. Slavery existed in the five northern slave states for nearly six more months when the 13th Amendment was ratified. If you want to celebrate the end of slavery in the US it should be Decemberteenth, December 6.


13 posted on 06/19/2020 9:23:08 AM PDT by SJackson (wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
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To: DeplorablePaul
Many new holidays were created during the French Revolution as well. The reign of terror was hectic and the rigors of non stop guillotine exhausting. A day off was really needed.

A new calendar with new months and days too. Twelve months, each 3 décades (weeks) long. And for the workers, they still got a day off every week. Décadi, to us Sunday, which comes every 10 days.

Juneteenth will give white liberals a chance to self flagellate and beg for forgiveness. Blacks can enjoy seeing white people grovel.

More likely go out on their yachts.

14 posted on 06/19/2020 9:27:01 AM PDT by SJackson (wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
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To: woodpusher

Lawful slavery persisted in the Union states of Delaware and Kentucky. It also persisted in 13 Parishes of Louisiana, Tidewater area of Virginia, certain coastal areas of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and about half the state of Tennessee. These areas were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation because they were occupied by the Union Army on Jan 1, 1863.


15 posted on 06/19/2020 9:27:23 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: SJackson

Details. Meh!


16 posted on 06/19/2020 9:30:15 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Bull Snipe

All correct except the part in reference to half of Tennessee. In the EP, President Lincoln identified which states, or parts of states, were then in rebellion (as opposed to listing exempted areas) and left Tennessee off the list.


17 posted on 06/19/2020 9:53:55 AM PDT by woodpusher
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To: rktman
[Article - Ryan Bomberger] Although limited in scope, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation set slaves free in states that had seceded from the Union. Many don’t realize Lincoln had issued an emancipation decree that set slaves in our nation’s capital free nearly eight months earlier. On April 16, 1862, The Compensated Emancipation Act abolished slavery in Washington D.C.; today it’s celebrated as “Emancipation Day.”

This is historically inaccurate and modestly incomplete.

Lincoln's EP of 1 Jan 1863 declared slaves free, but did not set anyone free. They were set free by the Union Army, which did a fine job. It declared as free those slaves in states, or parts of states, identified by Lincoln as being in rebellion against the United States on 1 Jan 1863. There is a significant distinction between states that had seceded, and states determined by Lincoln to be in a state of rebellion as of 1 Jan 1863.

Lincoln did not issue an emancipation decree for Washington D.C. on April 16, 1862. After deliberate delay, he signed a piece of federal legislation, An Act for the release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, on April 16, 1862. It only freed those slaves who remained in the district after the bill was signed.

The Senate bill passed the House 92-38 on Friday, April 11, 1862. [CG 37-2 pp. 1648-1649].

The bill was laid before Lincoln on Monday, April 14, 1862. The bill became effective upon President Lincoln's signature, which he delayed until Wednesday, April 16, 1862, as explained by Browning.

The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, edited by T. C. Pease and J. G. Randall, Vol. 1, Springfield, 1925, p. 541.

Monday Apl 14, 1862 In Senate. At night went to Presidents to lay before him the bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Had a talk with him. He told me he would sign the bill, but would return it with a special message recommending a supplemental bill making savings in behalf of infants &c and also some other amendments.

He further told me he regretted the bill had been passed in its present form—that it should have been for gradual emancipation—that now families would at once be deprived of cooks, stable boys &c and they of their protectors without any provision for them. He further told me that he would not sign the bill before until Wednesday—That old Gov Wickliffe had two family servants with him who were sickly, and who would not be benefitted by freedom, and wanted time to remove them, but could not get them out of the City until Wednesday, and that the Gov had come frankly to him and asked for time. He added to me that this was told me in the strictest confidence

It worked sort of like gradual emancipation, but faster. It caused owners to remove their property from the District. Lincoln gave that old Gov Wickliffe an extra few days to remove the family "servants."

18 posted on 06/19/2020 11:56:45 AM PDT by woodpusher
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