In New Orleans and Richmond, Garidel must have been surrounded by enslaved African Americans daily. Interesting that the sight of large numbers of free and joyful African Americans was so terrifying and depressing.
Another good Civil War Memory. But aside from the celebration you reference, this is the only link a brief Google search turned up. https://www.cwedrva.com/
A few links to Juneteenth Celebrations* - Hurrah! - but it saddens me that I didn’t see anything from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, any of the other large or small papers I follow, or the Washington Post. I know what is driving headlines right now, I have dear friends in Lviv 🙏🇺🇦, and there are other national issues like Jan. 6 and Hunter Biden. Perhaps soon, we’ll be less frightened and more enlightened about all of our history and it’s meaning to all citizens.
*I moved to Ft. Worth, Texas in 1982 from Virginia, and it was the first I ever heard of Juneteenth, because Texas was still teaching all of its history. Very thankful it is now a holiday, but I wonder if it can still be taught in Texas?
Sitting here at an event at the museum at Tredegar that's featuring the Elegba Folklore Society that is a celebration of the event, and thinking about this. Wondering what Hillary Green has come up with regarding the Emancipation Day celebrations in Richmond. I poked around a bit on it and there's a whole movement concurrent with MA going up, but I don't think it was all that enduring. The neat thing about that 1905 photograph on Main Street is that the central building on that block, right behind the streetcar, was the former U.S. Customs House that served as the Confederate War Department. Plus, if you zoom in, you can see mounted representatives of fraternal organizations in their regalia.
Was also thinking about how important words and perspectives are on this and how easy it is to get locked into a habitual way of putting things. For instance, the ABT's IG stories this morning read, "On this day... Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine-month siege, resulting in the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA to Union forces." Nothing really wrong with that from a factual perspective, but what if they shifted focus, they could say, "On this day...United States armies broke the nine-month Siege of Petersburg, resulting in the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond, VA." I like that one better. We center Confederates too much and leave the US too often as passive abstractions on the margins.
In New Orleans and Richmond, Garidel must have been surrounded by enslaved African Americans daily. Interesting that the sight of large numbers of free and joyful African Americans was so terrifying and depressing.
Right. As you know, New Orleans was the largest slave trading center in the United States.
Another good Civil War Memory. But aside from the celebration you reference, this is the only link a brief Google search turned up. https://www.cwedrva.com/
A few links to Juneteenth Celebrations* - Hurrah! - but it saddens me that I didn’t see anything from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, any of the other large or small papers I follow, or the Washington Post. I know what is driving headlines right now, I have dear friends in Lviv 🙏🇺🇦, and there are other national issues like Jan. 6 and Hunter Biden. Perhaps soon, we’ll be less frightened and more enlightened about all of our history and it’s meaning to all citizens.
*I moved to Ft. Worth, Texas in 1982 from Virginia, and it was the first I ever heard of Juneteenth, because Texas was still teaching all of its history. Very thankful it is now a holiday, but I wonder if it can still be taught in Texas?
Sitting here at an event at the museum at Tredegar that's featuring the Elegba Folklore Society that is a celebration of the event, and thinking about this. Wondering what Hillary Green has come up with regarding the Emancipation Day celebrations in Richmond. I poked around a bit on it and there's a whole movement concurrent with MA going up, but I don't think it was all that enduring. The neat thing about that 1905 photograph on Main Street is that the central building on that block, right behind the streetcar, was the former U.S. Customs House that served as the Confederate War Department. Plus, if you zoom in, you can see mounted representatives of fraternal organizations in their regalia.
Was also thinking about how important words and perspectives are on this and how easy it is to get locked into a habitual way of putting things. For instance, the ABT's IG stories this morning read, "On this day... Confederate lines near Petersburg broke after a nine-month siege, resulting in the fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA to Union forces." Nothing really wrong with that from a factual perspective, but what if they shifted focus, they could say, "On this day...United States armies broke the nine-month Siege of Petersburg, resulting in the flight of the Confederate government from Richmond, VA." I like that one better. We center Confederates too much and leave the US too often as passive abstractions on the margins.
Hear, hear!
Their wording is closely tied to the need to maintain the support of their members, which I suspect leans center right.
Love the subtle shade of "we're not celebrating your failure"