Slaves dreaded New Year's Day (Time magazine article)

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

@For Da Bag @HarlemHottie @MJ Truth



The real New Year is when the cycle of life begins again with NEW GROWTH. That is the beginning of Spring, called the Vernal Equinox. It happens on March 20th and its the point in time when the length of both day and night are equal. You cant begin something anew in the dead of winter. As beings of light and life, melanated people across the planet observe the beginning of new life as the beginning of a new year.


Reason for “New Years”
The short answer is Julius Caesar and the Romans.

During the seventh century, the arrogant Romans decided that nature-based calendars used by melanated humans since the dawn of time were not good enough for them. Instead, they copied some parts of the Kemetic (Egyptian) calendar and stuck their names into some of the months (Julius Caesar named July after himself and August after Augustus Caesar) to round their system out.

The year was calculated to be 365 and 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 45 B.C., making 46 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. Caesar named this calendar after himself, and thus the Julian Calendar was born.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

You mean the Spring Equinox?

@Nicole0416 - that's the spring equinox.

God's sacred calendar year begins in the spring -- not in the middle of a dead winter! Notice Exodus 12:1-2, "And the Eternal spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the FIRST MONTH OF THE YEAR TO YOU."

The first month of God's sacred calendar is called, in the Bible, "Abib". It means the month of "green ears." Later, the Jews called it "Nisan" -- a Babylonian word having the same meaning.

It was in the month of Abib or Nisan that Israel came out of Egyptian captivity under Moses (Ex. 34:18). The Hebrew month Abib overlaps the months of March-April on the pagan Roman calendar in use today.

God placed the beginning of the sacred year in the early spring to mark the beginning of the seasonal harvests. The two annual harvests in Palestine foreshadowed God's Plan for the twofold SPIRITUAL harvest of souls to be born into His Kingdom.

Abib [N] [H]

an ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain ( Exodus 13:4 ; 23:15 ); the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21st March. It was called Nisan, after the Captivity ( Nehemiah 2:1 ). On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered unto the Lord on the sixteenth ( Leviticus 23:4-11 ).

In the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox is called the vernal or spring equinox while the September equinox is called the autumnal or fall equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere, the reverse is true. The dates slightly vary due to leap years and other factors.[5]

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

@Nicole0416 - that's the spring equinox.

That’s more scientific I guess?? I’m looking at from more of a combination of spiritual, cultural and scientific. If that makes sense.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

double

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Triple post - c’mon servers

 

[richaveli83]

 

[8WON6]

@For Da Bag @HarlemHottie @MJ Truth



The real New Year is when the cycle of life begins again with NEW GROWTH. That is the beginning of Spring, called the Vernal Equinox. It happens on March 20th and its the point in time when the length of both day and night are equal. You cant begin something anew in the dead of winter. As beings of light and life, melanated people across the planet observe the beginning of new life as the beginning of a new year.


Reason for “New Years”
The short answer is Julius Caesar and the Romans.

During the seventh century, the arrogant Romans decided that nature-based calendars used by melanated humans since the dawn of time were not good enough for them. Instead, they copied some parts of the Kemetic (Egyptian) calendar and stuck their names into some of the months (Julius Caesar named July after himself and August after Augustus Caesar) to round their system out.

The year was calculated to be 365 and 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 45 B.C., making 46 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. Caesar named this calendar after himself, and thus the Julian Calendar was born.

This goes right in line with the way Septa means 7 but September is month #9, Octo means 8 but October is the 10th month, Nova means 9 but November is 11, and Deca means ten but December is 12th.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Not all enslaved African Americans viewed the holidays as a time of celebration and hope. Rather, Christmas served only to highlight their lack of freedom. As a young boy, Louis Hughes was bought in December and introduced to his new household on Christmas Eve "as a Christmas gift to the madam" (p. 13). When Peter Bruner tried to claim a Christmas gift from his master, "he took me and threw me in the tan vat and nearly drowned me. Every time I made an attempt to get out he would kick me back in again until I was almost dead" (p. 22).

Frederick Douglass described the period of respite that was granted to slaves every year between Christmas and New Year's Day as a psychological tool of the oppressor. In his 1845 Narrative, Douglass wrote that slaves celebrated the winter holidays by engaging in activities such as "playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whiskey" (p. 75). He took particular umbrage at the latter practice, which was often encouraged by slave owners through various tactics. "One plan [was] to make bets on their slaves, as to who can drink the most whiskey without getting drunk; and in this way they succeed in getting whole multitudes to drink to excess" (p. 75). In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass concluded that "[a]ll the license allowed [during the holidays] appears to have no other object than to disgust the slaves with their temporary freedom, and to make them as glad to return to their work, as they were to leave it" (p. 255). While there is no doubt that many enjoyed these holidays, Douglass acutely discerned that they were granted not merely in a spirit of charity or conviviality, but also to appease those who yearned for freedom, ultimately serving the ulterior motives of slave

 

[AAKing23]

#NeverForget no matter how much cacs try to distance us from this shyt

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Not all enslaved African Americans viewed the holidays as a time of celebration and hope. Rather, Christmas served only to highlight their lack of freedom. As a young boy, Louis Hughes was bought in December and introduced to his new household on Christmas Eve "as a Christmas gift to the madam" (p. 13). When Peter Bruner tried to claim a Christmas gift from his master, "he took me and threw me in the tan vat and nearly drowned me. Every time I made an attempt to get out he would kick me back in again until I was almost dead" (p. 22).

Frederick Douglass described the period of respite that was granted to slaves every year between Christmas and New Year's Day as a psychological tool of the oppressor. In his 1845 Narrative, Douglass wrote that slaves celebrated the winter holidays by engaging in activities such as "playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whiskey" (p. 75). He took particular umbrage at the latter practice, which was often encouraged by slave owners through various tactics. "One plan [was] to make bets on their slaves, as to who can drink the most whiskey without getting drunk; and in this way they succeed in getting whole multitudes to drink to excess" (p. 75). In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass concluded that "[a]ll the license allowed [during the holidays] appears to have no other object than to disgust the slaves with their temporary freedom, and to make them as glad to return to their work, as they were to leave it" (p. 255). While there is no doubt that many enjoyed these holidays, Douglass acutely discerned that they were granted not merely in a spirit of charity or conviviality, but also to appease those who yearned for freedom, ultimately serving the ulterior motives of slave

Damn.

Reading that they made bets on our ancestors when it came to drinking shed some light on us and our drinking currently.

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

That sent chills when I read that line for real - word for word, she would say to me and my brothers for years-with her ad libs though “ Don’t do any dumb shyt or get in any trouble for New Years bc that’s what you’ll be doing all year “ at the time, we shrugged like - here she goes again with her mommyisms- trying to scare us, stop us from going out and making us go to church with her for service. But I see how deep that goes. Wow, to think that goes all the way back to the 1800s and repeated for generations.

That’s the misconception we all have. SLAVERY WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO. Not many generations ago.

 

[8WON6]

Damn.

Reading that they made bets on our ancestors when it came to drinking shed some light on us and our drinking currently.

breh this whole line:

"playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whiskey"

could have been written today. just changing them to current stuff. "playing ball, fighting, clout-chasing, rappin, dancing, and getting drunk/high"

not much has changed.

 

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

If there is one good thing about the Internet, it’s the ability to confront this type of history so others can see. You literally can’t hide it.

 

[Stone Cold]

I might've perked up a little on Breeding Day

 

[Stone Cold]

@For Da Bag @HarlemHottie @MJ Truth



The real New Year is when the cycle of life begins again with NEW GROWTH. That is the beginning of Spring, called the Vernal Equinox. It happens on March 20th and its the point in time when the length of both day and night are equal. You cant begin something anew in the dead of winter. As beings of light and life, melanated people across the planet observe the beginning of new life as the beginning of a new year.


Reason for “New Years”
The short answer is Julius Caesar and the Romans.

During the seventh century, the arrogant Romans decided that nature-based calendars used by melanated humans since the dawn of time were not good enough for them. Instead, they copied some parts of the Kemetic (Egyptian) calendar and stuck their names into some of the months (Julius Caesar named July after himself and August after Augustus Caesar) to round their system out.

The year was calculated to be 365 and 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 45 B.C., making 46 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. Caesar named this calendar after himself, and thus the Julian Calendar was born.

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