Dr. Sherrill D. Wilson, urban anthropologist; former director of the Office of Public Education and Interpretation at the New York African Burial Ground Project; professor at Manhattan College and author of New York City’s Black Slaveowners: A Social and Material Culture History (Garland Pub. Co, 1994), and Kenneth C. Davis, author of the “Don’t Know Much About History” series and In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives (Henry Holt and Co, 2016), talk about the legacy of Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery, in the age of mass incarceration, Black Lives Matter and the reappraisal of the Confederate monuments.
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Even more important than Juneteenth is December 6, 1865 , when the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, which officially ended slavery in America. The entire Democratic Party (i.e. Senate, House, and governors) voted against the 13th Amendment.
Juneteenth resulted from Republicans enforcing how they had freed the slaves; and the KKK grew up afterwards created by Democrats! It is a day that all Americans should encourage their children to read the slave narratives like "The Autobiography of Nicholas Said" : https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/said/said.html