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a #Juneteenth reminder that the enslaved people in Texas were not the last people to receive the news about their freedom. Thousands of Black people didn’t know they were free, or knew they were free and their owners forced them to stay. Black people were kidnapped and abandoned
literally locked up and sleeping in jails and prisons across the south for years following “emancipation”. Disabled slaves particularly were left behind in bondage and suffered further exploitation by being sold and hidden between networks. Children, too.
i just don’t want the “from Juneteenth to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson” narratives to obscure the historical and ongoing violence from slavery
celebrate, remember, honor, whatever you need to do. just also remember to study the broader history and join contemporary struggles of the descendants of African peoples who weren’t fighting to be including in America, but to be free, and those aren’t the same thing
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