Yes. Agreed. A worthy holiday. But not in a wokified sense. In a patriotic sense. Hopefully one day future generations will be unable to unpack the journey of abolitionism...
These are some good starting points for me:
1) Ben Franklin’s conversion and founding of Pennsylvania Abolition Society
http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/slavery-abolition-society/
2) Angelina Grimke Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
http://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Grimke_Appeal-to-the-Christian-Women-of-the-South-excerpts.pdf
3) Frederick Douglas’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July” (totally taken out of context these days. When read in full, it is one do the most patriotic and faith-centered texts produced in the 19th Century!)
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/nations-story-what-slave-fourth-july
But not in a wokified sense. In a patriotic sense.
I totally agree. And I suspect, at inception, it'll largely be taken in the wokey way.
Holidays can have a weird life cycle. Labor Day doesn't mean much to me aside from a day off/the end of summer. Veterans and Memorial Day took on greater importance for me as I got older. July 4 is a bigly holiday.
Maybe when I'm 90 I'll get it all right - as Dr Rice says, we do not bury our errors but rather confront them. He is to confrontation.