• Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    Juneteenth does not celebrate the abolishment of slavery. It celebrates the news arriving in Houston. New Jersey had slavery six months after juneteenth. Also it only freed men.

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      5 months ago

      I have never seen anything that says the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment only freed men. Do you have a source for that?

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        5 months ago

        Did women have the right to vote, to open a bank account, to live without a man controlling them?