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[StraytoStay]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

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@StraytoStay wrote:

There's still human traffickers unfortunately. Not completely over, wish it was. 😞

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       We're talking about this country; we're talking about Slavery here in the USA.

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I did mean this country. http://juneteenthcw.org/about/

[itiswhatitis]

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@StraytoStay wrote:

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@chrystaltree wrote:

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@StraytoStay wrote:

There's still human traffickers unfortunately. Not completely over, wish it was. 😞

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       We're talking about this country; we're talking about Slavery here in the USA.

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I did mean this country. http://juneteenthcw.org/about/

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@StraytoStay human trafficking of indigenous Blacks from Africa is not part of this discussion because it doesn't affect this group.  So, in affect your original comment does not apply.

[Caaareful Shopper]

A marvelous thread to share!  Thank you @Oznell and everyone who contributed.

[Oznell]

I'd like to briefly go back a bit to hsawaknow, whose comment I believe was misunderstood.  If I read her correctly, I think she was saying that her immigrant ancestors were properly shocked and grieved when they came here to see Jim Crow at work in the United States.  That's a good observation, in my view.

Another great book for insight is surprisingly, Gail Horne Lumet's celebrated biography of her mother, Lena Horne, called  "The Hornes--  An American Family".   Far from just a show biz bio, it is a close-up look at a representative family of the striving black middle class, going back to the mid-nineteenth century.  It shows the struggles, from Lena's ancestor Sinai, who sold pies on streetcorners to buy her own freedom, to Cora Calhoun Horne, her grandmother, a highly respected African American clubwoman and activist, and arbiter of black Brooklyn society.  Lena's grandfather, the journalist Edwin Horne, was the son of a British river boat captain and an American Indian.  Very early on, he decided to identify as "black", and worked tirelessly to the group's benefit.

There are so many fascinating characters in this family, spanning two centuries, that one comes away dazzled at the complexity, struggles and achievements of a people under great duress, yet weaving their own deeply meaningful American story...

[hennypenny]

A day for reflection.

[SilleeMee]

I've always wondered why Juneteenth was never made into a day of recognition, not necessarily a holiday but at least a mark on the calendar.

[IMissSuperPoke]

I've seen it on some calendars, not many, but some.

[Oznell]

We just finished taking turns reading the Emancipation Proclamation at the table-- can you believe none of us had read it in full before?  My family looked at me quizzically at first when I suggested it, but they're used to me, so they pretty readily went along!

While reading Lincoln's words, I was forcefully struck by the massive power he wielded and the huge responsiblilities he owed as President of the United States.  Hubby said he had a similar reaction.  A great, great document and President.

[suzyQ3]

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@StraytoStay wrote:

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@chrystaltree wrote:

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@StraytoStay wrote:

There's still human traffickers unfortunately. Not completely over, wish it was. 😞

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       We're talking about this country; we're talking about Slavery here in the USA.

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I did mean this country. http://juneteenthcw.org/about/

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@StraytoStay, I appreciated your post. I don't we should nitpick when it comes to this issue. 

[happycat]

I didn't know what this was until a friend mentioned it to me last week. I'm proud to say my children did know all about it.

I do not know and will never understand how any human ever thought slavery was right.