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On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
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On Juneteenth (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R398
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Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle and
searing episodes of memoir, On Juneteenth recounts the origins of
the holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who had been
enslaved in the United States. A descendant of enslaved people
brought to Texas in the 1850s, Annette Gordon-Reed, explores the
legacies of the holiday. From the earliest presence of black people
in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in
Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on 19 June 1865, when General
Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's
insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier"
peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos and Blacks that became
a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework,
Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only
defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated
the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A
commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery
that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the
fight for equality is on-going.
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