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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 enormous hardships that African-American...

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Main Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company, Incorporated, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Juneteenth.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Texas.
African Americans > Texas > Galveston > History.
African Americans > Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Enslaved persons.
Liberty.
Enslaved Persons
Enslavement > history
Black or African American > history
Freedom
Social Structure
Texas
United States
Juneteenth (États-Unis)
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Texas.
Noirs américains > Texas > Galveston > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Anniversaires.
Noirs américains > Mœurs et coutumes.
Esclaves.
Liberté.
enslaved people.
freedom.
HISTORY / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
African Americans > History. > Texas.
Slaves > Emancipation > Texas.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
Texas > Galveston.
United States.
African Americans
African Americans > Social life and customs
Juneteenth
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Texas > Galveston
UNITED STATES.
History.
History
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.