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The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people...

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Main Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Juneteenth.
Slaves > Emancipation > Texas.
African Americans > Texas > Galveston > History.
African Americans > Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
HISTORY / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Table of Contents:
  • "This, then, is Texas"
  • A Texas town
  • Origin stories : Africans in Texas
  • People of the past and the present
  • Remember the Alamo
  • On Juneteenth.