On Juneteenth

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Gordon-Reed, Annette, 394.263 Go, Black Studies 394.263 Go
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"This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories : Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth.
""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"-- Provided by publisher.

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This History is Personal! submitted by TeacherN on July 20, 2021, 5:41pm Esteemed historian, Annette Gordon-Reed, combines American history with personal history in this excellent book of essays about growing up in Texas, Texas history, and the history of Juneteenth. As a teacher of 8th-grade American History, I found this to be incredibly interesting - especially her exploration of who writes history and how the story changes when more voices are heard.

Brief but packed with information submitted by kath on June 24, 2022, 1:14pm This short book is full of relevant Juneteenth history. The story of the yellow rose of texas and how that has changed over time was amusing - as who writes history gets to change it.

Quick Read on Another Chapter of Black/African American History submitted by ekjensen on August 27, 2022, 1:43pm Texas history corrected from/by further historical research and perspective of African American who were native to the state.

Interesting history submitted by 21621031390949 on June 11, 2023, 10:08pm Interesting, thoughtful little book, which has expanded my knowledge of Texas (from zero to one on a 10-point scale!) as seen through the eyes of a Black female historian who grew up in Texas. My only criticism is that I occasionally found it difficult to read, when sentence structure was overly complex and/or incorrect. Overall, though, quite good, and I recommend this book.