June 19th Marks the 150th Anniversary of African Americans Being Free

[Barnett114]

My Great Great Grandparents were both born in 1850 and were 15 when slavery ended in 1865.

My family continued to be sharecroppers in Mississippi until they left to come to Chicago.

Juneteenth is a day of celebration.

 

[MikelArteta]

"Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty. "

 

[KOohbt]

Half my family was free in Africa. The other enslaved and through that freedom I'm alive. The world is interesting as hell. Like timelines linking up unlikely.

 

[PhonZhi]

Just think about this for a sec yall: the white man "freed" us. Just think about those words.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Just think about this for a sec yall: the white man "freed" us. Just think about those words.

Exactly. Terrible way to word this.

That's like Native Americans celebrating the day the white man gave them some land to live on.

 

[The D-List Vet]

My Great Great Grandparents were both born in 1850 and were 15 when they were freed in 1865.

My family continued to be sharecroppers in Mississippi until they left to come to Chicago.

Juneteenth is a day of celebration.

i am jealous that you know your family history

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

Only 150 yrs brehs... That's not that long at all

 

[Barnett114]

i am jealous that you know your family history

I wish I knew more of it.

My great grandmother's side of the family is from Alabama but I know next to nothing about them.

 

[newworldafro]

Well not to rain on this parade.....but the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, when Abraham Lincoln "freed" the slaves on a national level. Juneteenth in 1865 recognizes that in state of Texas, the word had not gotten to the slaves , so they didn't realize they were "free" until that point.


I'm not hating though, carry on, 150 years of Juneteenth is actually even better, cause all the slaves at this point found out they were out of bondage.

Also in 1865, Shaw University in Raleigh, NC was the first HBCU to open in the South. So imagine being barred from reading and a few months later being able to go to place of higher education...............needs a cotdamn movie

 

[mortuus est]

i am jealous that you know your family history

Same

happy for breh

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Exactly. Terrible way to word this.

That's like Native Americans celebrating the day the white man gave them some land to live on.

Perhaps. But 200,000 black soldiers who fought for the Union also freed your ancestors.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

Only 150 yrs brehs... That's not that long at all

Only a century and some change .. the way racist cacs tell us to forget about it you'd think that it occurred in the B.C era

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Perhaps. But 200,000 black soldiers who fought for the Union also freed your ancestors.

My ancestors were "free" way before white people "decided" to and fought to the death to stop it in 1865 but I get it.

I see you didn't bring up the black soldiers that fought for the south

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

My ancestors were "free" way before white people "decided" to and fought to the death to stop it in 1865 but I get it.

I see you didn't bring up the black soldiers that fought for the south

 

[The D-List Vet]

I wish I knew more of it.

My great grandmother's side of the family is from Alabama but I know next to nothing about them.

the fact that you can date back to when your great great grandparents were 15 is truly amazing... so were they raised on the same plantation?