#Emancipation

jelani cobb

jelani9

Some things worth remembering on Juneteenth: Texas’ size and isolation allowed slavers to keep knowledge of Emancipation from the enslaved. Large slaveholders in coastal areas also moved enslaved people around

Allie Rougeot

AlienorR2

I saw many Canadians talking about #Juneteenth this year. In Canada, we should talk about August 1st, Emancipation Day. #EmancipationDay marks the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1883,

James W. Loewen

JamesWLoewen

WaPo published a piece today that cherry-picks Lincoln's statements about slavery to present a leader who didn't give a damn about it, just wanted to save the Union. By so

So Fain

sofain

Roasted here, like a lot of people in my notifications today, thinks this is a gotcha on the Lincoln Emancipation statue. So let's all look closer...https://twitter.com/RoastAnatomy/status/1279801844865392641 First @RoastAnatomy wants m

Adam Schiff

RepAdamSchiff

Today is Juneteenth. It should be a national holiday.Just as Americans learn the history of July 4, understanding and celebrating Juneteenth is a critical part of American history.So I wanted

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gesamtarbeiter

This anarchist position is old but now can be proven, by the reality of 20thC national liberation struggles and how it hasn't actually brought about proletarian emancipation but only bourgeois

Tera Hunter

TeraWHunter

I want to talk about emancipation, for anyone who is interested. As Juneteenth is being discussed there is a lot of misunderstandings about the Emancipation Proclamation, how slavery came to

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x_VintageBesos

Oooh I wanna do a thread of Juneteenth facts! Brb. For those who don’t know, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of the last enslaved Black people in the confederacy. It started

Adam Rothman

arothmanhistory

#GUhist286 103. Day 23. This class traces the revolutionary process of wartime emancipation. Here's a detailed chronology of key events from Lincoln's election to the ratification of the 13th Amendment...

Yascha Mounk

Yascha_Mounk

We should make Juneteenth a national holiday.Here’s why.[Thread.] The most important and straightforward reason is that we do not, at this point, have a national holiday that recognizes the sin

Smithsonian NMAAHC

NMAAHC

#OTD in 1865, enslaved African Americans were notified of their freedom by Union troops in Galveston Bay, TX—two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.Known as #Juneteenth , this day

Adéyẹmí Ajaguńlá Adéjengbé

IrunmoleSpeaks

RETHINKING PAN-AFRIKANISM: NEO-GARVEYISM AS THE 21ST CENTURY PAN-AFRIKANISM."There were three main strands of Pan-Africanism in the 20th century: that of DuBois, that of Garvey and that of Nkrumah. These strands

Timothy Schatz

IdealSniff

A quick and dirty history of left theory: From pre marx to modern tendacies of anti fascist, l/acc, eco-hyphen, and other leftists See thread attached 1/x Pre-Marxist---In the pre Marxist

Kevin M. Levin

KevinLevin

Tonight at 6pm EST I will be joining @AshleighWrites and @DinaABailey to talk about the ongoing debate about Civil War/Confederate monuments. You can register at the link below. https://www.gvsu.edu/kutsche/cms-form-edit.htm?formId=EA4BF0BE

Brooks D. Simpson

BrooksDSimpson

We will hear a lot today about the anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862.It's often confused with the Emancipation Proclamation itself, which

Dr. Jessica Wranosky, Ph.D.

JessicaWranosky

#Juneteenth is not only a Texas holiday or date. Instead, Juneteenth celebrated inside & outside Texas was & is the epitome of the idea—‘None of us are free until