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We must never forget that part of US history.
As for where we are? Sadly, that flag says it all....
Thank you for posting.
Our TRUE history makes us all better.
The publicans want to hide history because they are leading us backwards instead of into the future!
We in Canada did have such «bad» history mainly toward ou natives and a bit less for black slavery as we followed the British Crown who freed from slavery many years before USA.
That is why many black people fled to Canada to excape from slavery.
What is unbelievable it that still in 2024 you are still struggling to accept that sad part of your history. Are you afraid to acknowled that because of slavery USA did get richer and became what it is now.??
For many years in Canada our federal governemnt and all provincial ones are making laws and doing actions to renegociate peace with all of our natives nations.
In Province of Québec we had the «Paix des Braves» (Peace of the Braves) many years ago to be able to use natives territories to build our huge hydro electricity dams and power plants and give them work and money to do it.
More than money is the reconnaissance of their ancestry costums and enable them to maintain them.
Not forgetting the huge mistake back in the 1870 till even 1980 in sone remote places of those native schools where the government with the help of Catholic Church priests took young natives from their families to «educate» them in English to assimilate them.
Many were sadly beaten, rapped and died it a total anonymous way without telling their family.
Today we are trying to recognize that huge mistake and carnage and Canada is doing all we can to be pardon by the natives tribes.
That "Price list" of slaves, and how they were listed--"Wenches" and "bucks", etc., really hit home with me. I'd seen a lot of drawings and seen movies, etc, but when I saw the 'inventory' listed like that, I connected viscerally...I finally understood how demeaning and dehumanizing slavery really was.
We're still not too far from there, when one hears about slave labor in China, or even hearing about the working conditions that Big Business expects their low-level employees to tolerate.
Thanks for posting.
VRCooper & Wolf - You're welcome.
I'm late to this discussion but I have much to add and will try to edit my thoughts.
First, the anger I have for not knowing much about this celebration. Lincoln freed the slaves. Period. That was it for what we were taught when I went to school. Obviously no input from slaves or children of slaves that went into the textbooks printed back then. Whitewashing history? You bet!
Second. I was trying to think of something amusing or entertaining to say about this post, I wondered to myself what was the thinking behind calling the male slaves BUCKS and the female slaves WENCHES, other than the obvious. Why not DOES for the women, that seemed more appropriate. But the more I thought about this historical wrong that still hasn't been righted. the deeper I became involved in the activities in which I took no part. My white ancestors came from Germany and settled in Washington State before the turn of the 20th century. Slavery was not an issue in this corner of the country. No, we were treating the American Indians with the same ruthless treatment as the African slaves, enslaving them to their own brand of hell. Mankind seems hellbent on wanting what they do not have or need, and doing everything, including murder and torture to achieve that goal.
Finally, that sign. How disgusting and shameful to print a sign that puts human beings in the same category as livestock and auction them off like cattle on the hoof. And the printer misspelled that abhorrent word picaninny, the term used for the dark-skinned children of black slaves.
As for me, the goal is to keep learning what I do not know, researching the things that trouble me and sharing what I've learned with others. Remember, being WOKE is not a pejorative or something of which to be ashamed. Wear it as a badge of honor, a sign you are able to think and reason for yourself. Happy Juneteenth!
P.S. Okay friends, I already know I stink at editing! LOL
Milleson - You done fine as far as I'm concerned.
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