#Emancipation

Bloomberg Government

bloomberggov

#Juneteenth : a threadPresident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, at what is now the Emancipation Oak located on the campus of @_HamptonU. 1/4 It would

Curtis Harris

curtismharris

The US is actually fairly unique in the Americas in that the federal government did NOT compensate masters for emancipation, with the exception of DC Emancipation which covered about 3k

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

mary ✨ מרים

marywithak

I don't want to go all history minor on this, but a few facts:1. the north had slaves, they did not start the war over slavery + did not have

Monica M.

MonicaAMaurer

#APUSH220 Frederick Douglass, who we have talked about in class and read about in "Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" by Stephen B. Oates, was an abolitionist and editor of The North

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kristoncapps

The Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park was funded entirely by freedmen and women. They should have gone with Harriet Hosmer's design — which would have showed Abraham Lincoln flanked by

Pro Hoops History

ProHoopsHistory

Emancipation Day(s)The NBA falling over itself to recognize Juneteenth gave me the excuse to write about my other historical love: the Civil War and the loooooong process of emancipationhttps://prohoopshistory.substack.com/p/juneteenth

MagaMama

BarbaraLeeBurn1

1) At the very least, society can try getting history correct. The war did not "begin" over slavery, The south was seceding from the union in a protest to taxation.

JamesHeartfield

JamesHeartfield

This guy is a descendant of the liberated slaves who paid for the emancipation monument-indeed he says his great-great grandfather is the man sculpted with Lincoln. This really would be

Brian Goldstein

bgoldst

Beyond the nuance of the "Emancipation Memorial," which is well told here by @rmbryer, is the larger story of Lincoln Park in the years that followed. 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/25/yes-dcs-emancipation-memori

Netflix

netflix

If you’re wondering why people are calling for today, Juneteenth, to be a national holiday... you might only know part 1 of the “how slavery ended in America” story.When white

Jack Jones

jackmsjones

@PoliticalEdProj So I finished the Draper reading for #PEP , read some critical literature and have some thoughts on this idea of "socialism from below". New to Draper, so looking

Brian Gay 🌻

bgaymoreoften

Slavery in the South could not have flourished without help from the North. The deeply religious Mass Bay colony built the first American slave ship. Liberal Rhode Island sponsored thousands

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Happy Emancipation Day!Just a few facts:The US was 3rd to last in the Americas to abolish slavery.The Emancipation Proclamation came abt partially because enslaved people were self-liberating by the thousands.

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

I was actually waiting for this response, which comes from people so addicted to grievence that they are unable to engage with the scholarship as it exists.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1274012867839365120 Read McPherson, read

Don Robotham

dondee_don

An interesting question: why did a small country like JA have this outsized global cultural impact. Some thoughts: a) JA had most extensive oppressive large slave plantation regime; b) long

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