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On Juneteenth par Annette Gordon-Reed
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On Juneteenth (édition 2021)

par Annette Gordon-Reed (Auteur)

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""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"--… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:On Juneteenth
Auteurs:Annette Gordon-Reed (Auteur)
Info:Liveright (2021), 144 pages
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Mots-clés:Texas history, slavery, education, integration, memoir, essays, hardcover

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Historian Annette Gordon-Reed, a Black native of Texas, discusses her home state’s checkered history in this brief volume. Her focus is on the ongoing, complicated legacy of chattel slavery and its corrosive effect on Black-Native-White relationships from early settlements to this day. Both family stories and official accounts inform her work.

The book contains less information on Juneteenth than the title implies, but it does reward the short time it takes to read it. ( )
  akblanchard | Dec 27, 2023 |
recommended by Hassan Adeeb
  pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |
A quick eye opening audiobook that I was quite fortunate to have discovered. ( )
  GeauxGetLit | May 27, 2023 |
I thought I knew Texas. I even lived there for a brief time long ago. But I clearly bought in to the myths about Texas. And misleading or even delusional myths they are. And our pop culture has reinforced those myths with movies, songs, and characters who are more like who we want to believe they were than who they really were. This short book gets behind the façade as only a Black historian who grew up there, can.

We all know some of the history - indigenous people, the Spanish conquest, the Mexican heritage, The Independent Republic, statehood, the confederacy and because of the recent publicity, Juneteenth and Galveston. And possibly the hurricane that destroyed Galveston. Then there are the myths you sort of knew might be myths, like the defenders at the Alamo, Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, exist in our minds more like TV characters and probably had some less desirable sides. But this book goes further. We learn how slavery became a central feature of Texas especially as it achieved statehood and how it was more closely linked to the confederacy because of slavery. We also learn more about Stephen Austin's role in bringing slavery to Texas. And more jarring revelations like how the native Indians enslaved Blacks. Et tu Tonto?

We also likely know the centrality of Church and family in Black history, especially post-Civil War. But this book shows how family was central to Blacks learning their own history despite the myths that pervaded society more generally. They knew better than that nonsense. To Blacks in Texas Juneteenth was long a day for celebration of a momentous event in their lives, especially in their churches where they were safe from white disapproval of the celebrating. The story of Texas is told through the remembrance of the author of her family's history and how the world outside their doors impacted their lives very personally. Oral history clearly extends what was written down. The book is small, it's what she learned about her state from her family. It helped expand my view. I wanted more. ( )
  Ed_Schneider | Jan 5, 2023 |
This extended essay is a mix of Texas history and memoir. As she writes in the “Coda,” Gordon-Reed tried to strike a balance between her love for Texas and its complicated and often controversial history. I think she succeeds and is equal parts critical and curious about the story of her home state as well as her family’s connections in Eastern Texas. I’m glad I picked this up. ( )
  psalva | Dec 11, 2022 |
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""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"--

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