Topic: Juneteenth

[Ken (OP)]

What Is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth commemorates an effective end of slavery in the United States.

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Juneteenth 2023 will occur on Monday, June 19.

[Ken (OP)]

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

by Jennifer Berry Hawes, photography by Gavin McIntyre for ProPublica
June 16, 5 a.m. EDT
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction.

Sitting at her bedroom desk, nursing a cup of coffee on a quiet Tuesday morning, Lauren Davila scoured digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads. A graduate history student at the College of Charleston, she logged them on a spreadsheet for an internship assignment. It was often tedious work.

She clicked on Feb. 24, 1835, another in a litany of days on which slave trading fueled her home city of Charleston, South Carolina. But on this day, buried in a sea of classified ads for sales of everything from fruit knives and candlesticks to enslaved human beings, Davila made a shocking discovery.

On page 3, fifth column over, 10th advertisement down, she read:

“This day, the 24th instant, and the day following, at the North Side of the Custom-House, at 11 o’clock, will be sold, a very valuable GANG OF NEGROES, accustomed to the culture of rice; consisting of SIX HUNDRED.”

[Ken (OP)]

Hey Family, are you looking for a good read on this Juneteenth Holiday? This link might be just the right one. One word of caution; it can be uplifting, but it can also be very heart breaking.
A white woman bridged the races. Then she found slave traffickers in her family.

[Skhilled]

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

This is nothing new. A LOT more things were hidden or destroyed. I remember growing when the police would try to beat us for nothing more just being alive. They would kill us because back then they knew it would not be published in the news.

I lived in a Philly project then. It was harsh and dirty. But we got tired of it and would start beating their asses. The mayor, Frank L. Rizzo, got tired of it and stopped them from coming there. LOL

Social media is the reason a lot of this is now coming to light. But I still hear people say "this didn't happen when I was growing up."

[Skhilled]

Juneteenth has its own flag.

https://www.interestingfacts.com/fact/6489079cbb20e796183dbb34