return2ozma@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 17 days agoHappy Juneteenth everyone!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down13
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minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·17 days agoJuneteenth 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.
minus-squareTodd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoI have never seen anything that says the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment only freed men. Do you have a source for that?
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoDid women have the right to vote, to open a bank account, to live without a man controlling them?
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.
I have never seen anything that says the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment only freed men. Do you have a source for that?
Did women have the right to vote, to open a bank account, to live without a man controlling them?