Juneteenth is coming

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The US holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery. I remember it as a kid in Louisiana it was a big deal to black folks, now we can all reflect on it.

Its a bit controversial, but I believe we need a reminder of our history. Slavery is an important part of US history, and its effects are still felt today.

Juneteenth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
 

Wishing everyone a happy Juneteenth celebration! šŸ’™

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Not something that happens in Canada, because along with the rest of the British Empire, we out lawed slavery in 1834. Remember that Canada was the end of the Underground Railway, for escaping black people. JimB.
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
This is the first Iā€™ve heard of Juneteenth
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It is a holiday unique to the US. Celebrates the end of legal chattel slavery here.

Don't know what the rest of the world does to recognize this. We are not the only ones to have practiced slavery. Slavery ended here in 1865, the last western country with slavery was Brazil, it ended in 1888. Mauritania was the last country in the world to legally end slavery, in 1981 though it took them a few more years to enforce the ban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery). As @jimintoronto said it ended in Canada in 1833 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada) along with the rest of the British Empire. This all refers to chattel slavery, one person owning another as legal personal property. Other forms of slavery still exist, unfortunately...
 
Alligatorob said:
It is a holiday unique to the US. Celebrates the end of legal chattel slavery here.

Don't know what the rest of the world does to recognize this. We are not the only ones to have practiced slavery. Slavery ended here in 1865, the last western country with slavery was Brazil, it ended in 1888. Mauritania was the last country in the world to legally end slavery, in 1981 though it took them a few more years to enforce the ban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery). As @jimintoronto said it ended in Canada in 1833 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada) along with the rest of the British Empire. This all refers to chattel slavery, one person owning another as legal personal property. Other forms of slavery still exist, unfortunately...
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Emancipation Day is the day when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 became law across the British Empire, including Canada. On August 1, 1834, the practice of slavery officially ended for millions of African people and their descendants in Canada and around the world.

My bad. Lol We DO have a celebration celebrating the day legal slavery officially ended. Excuse my ignorance.
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PeppermintPatty said:
Emancipation Day is the day when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 became law across the British Empire, including Canada. On August 1, 1834, the practice of slavery officially ended for millions of African people and their descendants in Canada and around the world.
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Thanks, I didn't know that. It appears easier for you to put a date to it than here, the end of slavery in the US was a process, June 19th is just the day some slaves in Texas learned of their freedom. I guess they started celebrating it and the idea spread.
 
Yesterday Father's Day eve, 6/17/2023, enjoyed a brunch at a downtown San Jose Hilton Hotel restaurant with a brother, his son and wife (attended wedding last September). Delicious fancy Belgian Waffles. Big announcement was their first baby is on the way.

Afterward enjoyed strolling with along a nearby Juneteenth art food music street festival with live rap and soul music. Another near outdoor event was in a park with live music event I had not been aware of with a $30 entrance fee? I declined to actually enter because I didn't have any idea what it was about. One of the event folks peeking through a crack in the visually blocking perimeter fence saw me dancing a bit outside the fenced in paid area where a few others were walking about since the sound boomed about everywhere. I heard someone calling out to someone from behind the fence, so walked over and this event official handed me a free ticket to get in free. :)

Notice there is another downtown art food music event this late afternoon Thursday so will enjoy that too.
 
As a general anthropology statement, that human history across the planet before our technology era was filled with various levels of slavery is not at all surprising and rather logical, where movement of materials like weighty food and building materials plus a long list of other tasks for both genders. And then there are domesticated farm and work animals the wealthy owned. In ancient times, that may have worked better at higher treatment levels, especially for any with wealth.

What did wealthy people hundreds of years ago do to free themselves from tedious, laborious, work? Hire trustable people to do whatever work. In ancient times, being a slave to the powerful or wealthy was likely a quiet goal for many in lower classes eking out an existence about communities, much less for simple countryside folk.

But slavery at the lowest ethical and moral ends has always been hell on Earth, especially about seaports. And especially where brutality and secks for money thrived.
 
Yay Juneteenth! Iā€™m in favor of freedom as I am the rule of law rather than the rule of a dictator or a mob. In the same way, Iā€™m pro wokeness over ignorance and prejudice and pro elite over mediocrity. Isnā€™t it odd how words for very positive values can be twisted to justify the worst possible values?
 

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