Juneteenth is not about military intervention to enforce freedom; it is a day of reclamation and remembrance. It is an affirmation of black humanity and dignity. For a nation in love with forward movement, the un-reconciled past haunts
Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, effectively outlawing slavery in the confederate states. The 13th Amendment that codified Lincoln’s executive order had passed Congress in January 1865 and advanced toward ratification. The confederacy surrendered in April 1865. Yet, for the 250,000 enslaved in Texas, the chicanery of the slave owners went unchecked until June 2nd, 1865, when U.S. Army forces arrived to inform them of their liberation.
Yet liberation wasn’t immediate, and the newly freed women and men took control of their destinies at their peril. In one account, Katie Darling with her captors for an additional six years because her white mistress refused to let her go, saying she “whip me after the war jist like she did ‘fore.” Plantation owners decided when and how they would notify their captives. Some waited until after harvest season to inform them.
Faulk, astonished, asked for clarification, and Smalley expanded: “No, he didn’t tell. They worked there, I think now they say they worked them, six months after that. Six months. And turn them loose on June 19th. That’s why, you know, we celebrate that day. Colored folks — celebrates that day.”Freedmen’s Bureau
, organized the former enslaved people around a date more meaningful to them than the Fourth of July; the first Juneteenth Day was celebrated in 1866. Juneteenth is not about military intervention to enforce freedom; it is a day of reclamation and remembrance. It is an affirmation of black humanity and dignity. For a nation in love with forward movement, the unreconciled past haunts.
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