Juneteenth

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dafuq is a juneteenth?

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Celebrated as the end of slavery in the US. Obviously excludes the clause of the 13th Amendment that served as a loophole, but emancipation holidays aren’t always so cut-and-dry.

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Before the 13th amendment, Lincoln formally ended slavery in the Union with the Emancipation Proclamation.

      But even before that, from 1861, the Union Army made it a policy to seize slaves that it captured as contraband (or prize) of war, and then effectively emancipate then.

      In general, even after the emancipation proclamation, slaves did not get actual freedom until the Union forces reached them.

      So it was a complicated and messy process.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ir’s weird how I’ve never heard about this, seeing how prevalentie American culture is in popular media.

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• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  literally me. The one time in like 6 months that I wanted to print off something

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The cafe where I planned to get a to-go breakfast when I needed to be at work on time for my weekly morning of responsibilities was closed for Juneteenth and I was late as a result.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What the fuck is Juneteenth?

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Somehow I read schedule a day as in they scheduled an appointment. Which wouldn’t make sense if the library was closed. So it means they scheduled their own shit in their own calendar. Which is pretty impressive given all these other problems OP claims to have.

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