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Juneteenth
Happy Juneteenth everyone!!
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Happy Juneteenth!
Happy Juneteenth to all. I’m glad it was finally made a federal holiday. It represents very significant events for this country. Thanks @Kasey for this thread and links.
The best part of that tweet is the dumbazz getting eviscerated in the comments
Happy Juneteenth!!
I was skeptical of Juneteenth until I read about it...I was simply uninformed.
I'm still not sure that making it a Federal holiday was necessary, because I believe it was politically motivated.
All that aside, the history of Juneteenth is just stunning to know that there were slaves who had no idea that they had been freed two years prior.
I'm white, and from the south, but my spiritual belief is holiness and from what I've read, the holiness people up north were the most ardent abolitionists. How can you read the Bible and believe that slavery is acceptable for anyone who professes to love God and Christ?
The spiritual application is that we can be free from the bondage of sin to serve God in holiness, and there are still people who don't know that this is possible.
Any form of slavery or bondage to another person is unacceptable to God, just as God wants us to be free to serve Him.
Celebrate the progress we have made in our nation over two centuries, and learn from humanity’s past. Thanks to such progress, all of our citizens are free and enabled to pursue health, wealth and happiness. Rather than lament the past, celebrate what humanity has been accomplished. Just my take…
Of all the significant historical events this nation has experienced, Emancipation is one of the biggest. Should have been a holiday a long time ago.
I'll go along with that about being a holiday a long time ago.
Wasn't the US the first country to outlaw slavery?
United Kingdom had us by about 30 years.
Thanks! I remember now...was too busy to look up before I posted.
US was one of the last countries to abolish slavery with Brazil being the last in the Americas. Haiti was the first country to outlaw all forms of slavery after gaining independence from France. Today, most people think of chattel slavery when they hear slavery, but if you expand the definition to other forms of slavery there have been laws banning slavery or types of slavery in certain regions since ancient times.
Slavery still exists legally in many places.
Slavery Still Exists In These 6 Countries And More | Very Real (oxygen.com)
Slavery Today: Countries With the Highest Prevalence of Modern Slaves - WorldAtlas