My Library


     
Limit search to available items
book
BookBook
Author Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.

Title On Juneteenth / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Publication Info. New York, NY ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Cato Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Cato Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Central Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Central Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Harper Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Harper Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Harris Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Harris Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Levine Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available
 Levine Library - Circulating Collection  E185.93.T4 G67 2021    Available

Edition First edition.
Description 148 pages : map ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148).
Contents "This, then, is Texas" -- A Texas town -- Origin stories : Africans in Texas -- People of the past and the present -- Remember the Alamo -- On Juneteenth -- Coda.
Summary ""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Juneteenth.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Texas.
African Americans -- Texas -- Galveston -- History.
African Americans -- Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Genre/Form History.
ISBN 9781631498831 hardcover
1631498835 hardcover
Standard No. 40030620658
Add a Review