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View Poll Results: Did you know what Juneteeenth was prior to this year?
Yes 159 51.62%
No 149 48.38%
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Old 06-21-2020, 06:55 AM
 
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Yes, I’ve known about it all my life.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:19 AM
 
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Yea, its been mentioned on NPR over the years. But thought it was mostly a Texas thing.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Arizona
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I'd heard of it but just thought it was more made up crap like Kwanzaa. I was right.
You don't think freeing of the last slaves in America should be celebrated? Whats your ideas on slavery?
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:23 AM
 
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Having studied the Civil War fairly extensively for the past 15 or more years, yes, I knew about it. But except in the context of history, I have almost never heard it mentioned.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:23 AM
 
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I knew of it growing up in an urban area. There were church services and picnics. The older people talked about the happy and the sad associated with it.

But now, living in a rural mountain area, several people I know said they knew little or nothing about it. I told them some of the stories I heard as a kid. It was well received. I hope I got details correct. Oral tradition isn't perfect.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:23 AM
 
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Yes, but I also have a master's degree in the history of the Civil War.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:28 AM
 
Location: Long Island NY
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I knew about Juneteenth for a long time. Wasn’t it mentioned in Alex Hailey’s Roots? I just wasn’t aware of the Texas connection.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:32 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma
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Grew up here in Oklahoma in the '60s and '70s. Was aware of it and it seemed as if it was regarded as a "Texas thing" back then.

I don't remember it being associated with the greater south at all.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:48 AM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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Again to remind everyone where the slave trade had significant impact (not in the US). Click on the link in that sentence. The US was a very minor slave destination.

And had Africans NOT captured and sold their continent-mates into slavery in the first place, there would have been no Atlantic slave trade.
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Old 06-21-2020, 07:52 AM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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Black people need to understand that those who cause them the most harm by far are other black people.

That is the real “slavery” today.
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