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• Island of Color

  Where Juneteenth Started

  Collins, Izola Ethel Fedford, 1929-

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  On the island of Galveston, Texas, the news of the Emancipation Proclamation arrived in June 1865—first whispered by deckhands and later declared publicly by General Granger at Ashton Villa. That moment, now known as Juneteenth, became a defining…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth

  the Story Behind the Celebration

  Cotham, Edward T. (Edward Terrel), 1953-

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  Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of the national conversation about race, slavery, and how Americans understand, acknowledge, and explain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rooted

  the American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

  Baker, Brea,

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  Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth.

• Envisioning Emancipation

  Black Americans and the End of Slavery

  Willis, Deborah, 1948-

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  Renowned photographic historian Deborah Willis and historian of slavery Barbara Krauthamer have amassed 150 photographs—some never before published—from the antebellum days of the 1850s through the New Deal era of the 1930s. The authors vividly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Long Emancipation

  the Demise of Slavery in the United States

  Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018,

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  Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth Rodeo

  Bird, Sarah,

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  Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began to officially commemorate Juneteenth, in the heat of East Texas, saddles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Galveston's Juneteenth Story

  and Still We Rise

  Boudreaux, Tommie D.,

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  Galveston was the birthplace of Juneteenth. Issued in Galveston on June 19, 1865, General Orders, No. 3 announced to the people of Texas that all slaves were free. It is one of the Island's most important historical moments. Although Juneteenth has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

  Davis, David Brion

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  From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has been nearly fifty years in the making.

• Watermelon & Red Birds

  a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

  Taylor, Nicole A.,

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  On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General Order Number 3, informing the people of Texas that all enslaved people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Juneteenth

  Gordon-Reed, Annette,

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  Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freedom National

  the Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

  Oakes, James

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  The consensus view of the Civil War - that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory - dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Slave No More

  Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom : Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation

  Blight, David W

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  Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• South to Freedom

  Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

  Baumgartner, Alice, 1987-

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  The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forever Free

  the Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction

  Foner, Eric

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  Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on black experiences and roles during the era. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in shaping Reconstruction, and creating a legacy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Juneteenth

  a Novel

  Ellison, Ralph

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  "Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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  From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  Ghana, eighteenth century: two half-sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Book

  Harris, M. A., 1908-

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  Seventeenth-century sketches of Africans as they appeared to be marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stony the Road

  Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of…Read moreRead more of this annotation