Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, originally aired a day after President Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. “When I think of Juneteenth, part of what I think about is the both/andedness of it,” Smith says, “that it is this moment in which we mourn the fact that freedom was kept from hundreds of thousands of enslaved people for years and for months after it had been attained by them, and then, at the same time, celebrating the end of one of the most egregious things that this country has ever done.” Smith says he recognizes the federal holiday marking Juneteenth as a symbol, “but it is clearly not enough.”
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[@GoldSunVHendrix]

The Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes had to be freed by the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866

[@ledzep3692]

Why yo always trying to steal from American descendants of slavery?! I'm tired of you self-hate groups trying to steal our thunder.

[@sandal_thong8631]

That was what I learned after Juneteenth. I posted this in another video and got a reply from a Native in denial: they didn't enslave people, only European Colonizers did.

[@EthanKironus8067]

@@sandal_thong8631 It's true they enslaved people, but we have to keep in mind that slavery as practiced by Indigenous tribes was typically different than Western chattel slavery. Not always, but there was often far more cultural significance attached to it and was not commercialized in the same way. European influence was also responsible for helping expand Indigenous slavery to the point it resembled European chattel slavery, of course not excusing the people who went along with it. I can recommend a couple good scholarly articles from my 2nd-year university Canadian history course if you're interested, they go really in-depth into the particulars of how different tribes' practices functioned and again how European influence/trading dynamics changed such practices.

[@Marco90731]

Cortex brought Slaves to Veracruz Cuz , before that the Aztecs captured Slaves on a routine basis.

[@joshuacarson6576]

​@@EthanKironus8067you know what you're sounding like You're trying to justify native American slavery. That cyber's okay for native Americans to do but the white man does it it's bad. Sorry to tell you but slavery slavery and it's bad no matter who does it. Whether it's a native Americans put black people and chains or Europeans put in black people and chains. Or the arabics putting black people in chains or the airbags put in Europeans and chains.

[@Muhdah1972]

I'm not surprised about the history of slavery in NY. Maybe for younger people living in NY it will be a shock, but almost 20 yrs ago the NY Historical Society had an exhibition on the book Slavery in New York. What's new for me is that a NY government official suggested seceeding along with the southern states.

[@heroinmom153]

Now they're celebrating their freedom with shootings at Juneteenth parties lol

[@yahuwahyasharahla6513]

F*** Juneteenth and tell my people is fully free and get back to put in that our ancestors did and the 13th Amendment is abolished for June 10th and f*** the people that's still in control of this s*** in the system may let continue

[@childofGodsKingdom]

The love of money truly, truly is the root of all evil. There was just too much money to be made off of the heads of these blk people in these evil states not to mention the sweet ease of life for those weak lazy southerners.

[@nsbd90now]

It is good to point out that the USA still has legal slavery for prisoners. Many don't know that.

[@PauloAdriano-zo2ng]

Slavery is part of the American DNA. It's the American Way. 😊

[@majorchutzpah7265]

Prisoners are laying around working their D-beaters!

[@sprsmoke]

Name a nation without prisoners. Just one.

[@majorchutzpah7265]

Show me the prisoners doing work against their will. You can sit around all day with your hands down your pants in correctional facilities.

[@billkingston4402]

@@sprsmoke USA has the most percent of imprisoned people on earth, a lot for minor charges, they end up working for major American corporations as slaves

[@sarahsharp9484]

From a native daughter: The US needs it's own Truth and Reconciliation Project.... regarding slavery and genocide of native First Nations here since time immemorial. We cannot move forward until and unless we make right the wrongs of the history of the nation.

[@andreabrown4541]

Whaaaatttt! How old is the CRM, again?

[@sarahsharp9484]

@@andreabrown4541 what is CRM? And what does it have to do with my comment?

[@sarahsharp9484]

@@andreabrown4541 if you are referring to the Civil Rights Movement, Google says that began in 1954 officially. Again, what does that have to do with my comment specifically?

[@steveclapper5424]

There is no cure for history, slavery is a distraction, it is an insolvable historic fact of human existence. When Indian tribes fought, they took slaves, raped and tortured their enemies, this is the sad truth regardless of what culture, what ethnicity. Europeans are no different, just more successful.

[@PauloAdriano-zo2ng]

That's a commendable idea, but it would hurt the feelings of fragile snowflakes and the commission would get hijacked by those with a nefarious agenda.

[@abc-dj3dx]

Indigenous people here in the Amaracas were the first to be enslaved... and the last. In 1800 Congress passed a ban on slave trade between nations. In 1862/1865 slavery ended. I am representing for all the Indigenous ancestors who were slaves. Together with our African brothers and sisters, we are still here!! ;)

[@sandal_thong8631]

Slavery still existed in Oklahoma by Native American tribes for another year (1866) until they signed a treaty ending it.

[@וויליאםמייאר]

Like many Blacks, indigenous people were slave holders as well.

[@nefertinaabrams1853]

African Americans were enslaved until WW2, this is well documented in a book "Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A. Blackman. Indigenous nation received Reparations, so did Japanese and many other groups. All except the descendants of enslaved Africans, this is about us, not sure why you would insert your cause here, when it has been addressed by the U.S. government and the United Nations‼️

[@abc-dj3dx]

@@sandal_thong8631 wow, I was going to leave a nice juicy comment, but then I got a look at your sign in name and couldn't take you seriously anymore.

[@abc-dj3dx]

@@kimbee5792 Native American slavery was not the same as European slavery. Our slaves became family... as you can read in the histories of enslaved people who were later found and did not want to return to European society. Either way, none of this takes away from the enslavement of Indigenous people or Africans. Next you'll say that Africans owned slaves too, which is true. But it still doesn't lessen the gravity that enslaving people is wrong.

[@tammyrivera8795]

Thank you for sharing this history. I am so frustrated that now, in my 50s, I'm learning so much that was not taught in school!

[@curtrice1264]

I was in school in the 1950’s . 5,000 people, small New England town. Yet they taught history. The library had rich benefactors. So we had great , current history books 🥰

[@sandal_thong8631]

I read _Lies My Teachers Told Me._ The updated version maybe 20 years later sadly said nothing has changed in high school history texts. They want something other than truth, justice and democracy.

[@וויליאםמייאר]

I would suggest that if the topic is of serious concern to you that you do your own research and not let yourself be swayed by opportunists.

[@maysoonhussien3714]

please make report about starvation in Gaza because a lot of people in dire situation

[@stevenhanson6057]

And those slave owners have been pissed ever since. Wait, they all died. What matters is excelling in school and going to work.

[@1MarkKeller]

They passed that hate down to their offspring ... and now they, all grown up, continue the tradition.

[@themanwnoname3454]

free and fair elections freedom of speech & expression equal access to education rule of law freedom of peaceful assembly

[@flixfan1]

Kiss any hope of that goodbye if Trump wins.

[@binder946]

just read book by fanon to remember this day. thank you to the prople who voted 🗳 for the passing of this ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@vlventureworx1776]

Aint it amazing READING WAS OUTLAWED FOR US.

[@hoteppanafrica2566]

We need to see more of these topics in this space and others, regularly. And we must place as much emphasis on the atrocities against the African Diaspora in the U.S., and those being allowed to persist on the pillaged and plundered continent of Africa, as we do those in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

[@Face761]

New York is the first state to pass a law for total abolition of slavery.

[@TheEggmaniac]

A non America here. But I m curious why is it called Juneteenth? That sounds an odd or imprecise name to me. If this happened on June 19th, why isnt it called June Nineteenth?

[@TheEggmaniac]

@@lynns4426 Thanks, I get it now, but I still dont really understand why it wouldnt be more accurate and meaningful to say June Nineteenth.

[@spiellyable]

Thank you for replaying this. Inconvenient facts that we should all know.

[@SageLittleHawk]

Slavery wasn't abolished, it was expanded to include anyone not able to buy their way out.

[@kingmaafa120]

Say dat again

[@jron20r51]

Amen

[@ltanyablackmon9169]

Excellent!

[@camiamproducer]

His program on Crash Course was amazing

[@ShizukaRose]

Yes!!

[@Marco90731]

He should run for public office, coherent and cognizant.​@@ShizukaRose

[@rabiasaeed2206]

WelCome To the Slavery of Power and Money 🗽 Start another Struggle To Be Free👀👂🗳️🌎⚖️ Equality and Justice for All 🌎

[@EsSilverline]

Thanks, Democracy Now for reporting on this important subject.

[@СергейРудой-ч6к]

The modern form of voluntary slavery is even more sophisticated and humiliating. Formally, a person is free and is looking for a better master for himself.

[@TheV00d00D011]

FALSE

[@dimemack]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[@emiliobello2538]

I’m from Maryland and Silver Spring is close to me

[@theraceanalystphdprovingha4119]

My attend was at the Saturday pre-Juneteenth program held at the 19th century Grand Theater in Galveston. The European conductor female, was the MC. There was no definition of what Juneteenth was about firstly. It was a symphonic experience. The highlights of Negroe composers of old and new, yes, was noteworthy, but any Juneteenth centeredness, had to be self-extracted, conjured up by whatever means of spirit and self-awareness one enterred with. The conductor MC did not own the rightful commemorative spirit of Juneteenth history nor context to deliver such substance. Her mention with antibellum-like ease, the term "the slaves" resonated clearly distance, never nears the current day consciousness of deferred use of"enslaved" as the proper homage to - enslavers from Europe and elsewhere. The gospel sounded beautiful, as again... Juneteenth key ingredients had to be brought in under your coat.

[@chinampina5]

Clint Smith 🙏🏽

[@cynthiakelly6176]

I wish Clint Smith would have a conversation with Judge Joe Brown.

[@Marco90731]

At times I starved and went homeless to avoid building Atomic weapons and fighting unessessary Wars , I suppose we all wish , that in hindsight, we could have lived differently , but not in a latter day Roman Empire.

[@theowofford5387]

Find an employer or live on the street? The same as involuntary servitude. Slavery? Y’all keep throwing out these funny words like they mean … today. Talking about history, let’s wake up y’all. Labor, employee, slave, indentured, servant, which term will we think of next?

[@tedmom3029]

He is an Excellent example of Profiteering off of racism. How about pulling this into a larger view of slavery worldwide and from the beginning of time.

[@וויליאםמייאר]

As a matter character and spiritual seed, he is a direct descendent of the chieftains who set the price of a human soul at a bottle of whiskey. The chieftains were exploiters, and so are all these of the race industry.

[@Still-Learning]

The business of enslaving people changed its model from physical to psychological enslavement on Decmember 18, 1865 after holdout franchises Delaware and Kentucky agreed to the change in business practice.

[@marciataylor2794]

You all can keep talking about these wicked Holidays if you want to judgement is upon America and its wickedness

[@davidayers5173]

If the holdout states from the north, Delaware and Kentucky didn't free the 1:14 slaves till December , then the holiday for freeing slaves should be December.

[@WAEVOICE]

If you ask me, making a national holiday out of the delayed arrival of a memorandum isn't that worthwhile.

[@janetcohen9190]

Yes, And perhaps ponder who are imposed on to pay for another fake holiday for FED, State, County, City, etc politicians, staff's, and related?

[@nghtwtchmn129]

Especially considering how many people get shot every year at Juneteenth celebrations.

[@TheV00d00D011]

Right so the end of slavery part doesnt matter to you. Russian troll energy.

[@joshuacarson6576]

And yet not all slicer free even after June 10th. It took the US military coming in a year to two years after that forcing the native Americans to give up their slaves

[@sandal_thong8631]

11:30 "I think very clearly, The Critical Race Theory - the idea of it is being used as a bogeyman. And it is being misrepresented and distorted in ways - by people who don't even know what Critical Race Theory is. Right. So we should be clear that the thing people are calling Critical Race Theory is just, that is the language they are using to talk about teaching any sort of history that rejects the idea that America is a singularly exceptional place. And we should not account for the history of harm that has been enacted to create opportunities in intergenerational wealth for millions of people that has come at the direct expense of millions of other people across generations." This makes me think of the Mormon girl whose family homeschooled her and her siblings but didn't teach her anything about slavery or Civil Rights. I don't remember that Church being particularly responsible for slavery, but maybe it was just they still didn't want to talk about it to kids. The Left doesn't seem to know how to fight back against McCarthyism-style tactics like responding to the phrase "Critical Race Theory" by saying, "You just don't want to teach about slavery, Civil Rights and Black History!"

[@charlesirby1643]

Mormons weee slaveowners in Utah and California. Even Joseph Smith the heretic spoke disparaging of African people and how they were subhuman . Mormons as most white Americans like to feign ignorance of their history or call it CRT for speaking facts

[@romstar]

FBA are not strangers in the country our ancestors built from the ground up😢❤ Reparations are Long overdue 😢

[@rjl5759]

Performing manual labor is not building a country. Don't be absurd.

[@brucejones7723]

💯, My 85 yr old Aunt talks about meeting Her grandma who was born into Slavery. Not That Long Ago, REPARATIONS now.

[@MrDXRamirez]

I think another federal holiday filled with hotdogs, hamburgers and backyard barbecues is not what the rage over the murder of George Floyd intended.

[@whatsgoingon07]

Gotta do the bare minimum for the election, nothing of substance

[@ivermectin3191]

I can’t wait to hear the authors perspective on the Irish slaves that built the sky scrapers or the black and native slave that many tribes owned …. I’ll get my popcorn 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@Phillip-dw7vr]

I’m so sick of having to keep up with all these holidays. I’m sorry, but I am not going to observe most American holidays anyway. In Alabama most people of African decent call or describe themselves as black, but a few call people who describe themselves as “African American,” are happy to call a “white” person a racist for describing them as “black” instead of “African American,” then they would tell the person “your a racist, I hate you!” How is it okay for an American of African decent to go back and forth between “black,” and “African American,” but if I say the “black” instead of African American, then I am called a racist and then I am told that I am hated? How does that work?

[@RasheedGazzi]

Nobody has called you racist nor said they hate you for the reasons you gave. You have something else going on you don't want to tell.

[@robertbarbeau2561]

most people of color do not identify themselves as African American just Black American.

[@zerofluff88]

Just use black bro. If people call you racist for saying "black people", you're hanging out the the wrong, victim mentality black people.

[@MeccaMakeba]

Clint left out that the statue of liberty was originally a Black women.

[@markpappas9858]

Excellence

[@themanwnoname3454]

I like Christmas & all, but it is definitely a far more practical holiday.

[@Crowned744]

💛❤️🖤🤍 They are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the children of the world!

[@fe7252]

A pity so many of his followers don't.

[@MMABeijing]

Can tour channel make a segment about the fact that most slaves traders were Jewish whites, not simply whites? Thank you

[@jackjackson545]

No matter what is done we Americans will never be free of the abomination of slavery.

[@kingmaafa120]

Just facts

[@kennethsecrease2513]

Well, it's a good thing this devil exposed himself. Just as you say, he could've easily laced the brotha food. He

[@theowofford5387]

What is the real history of the indigenous people here in America? Why are there so many different terms that you all throw out both sides, same snake I mean, bird. Peace, love.

[@Boomers4Zoomers]

Godspeed young man 🎉🛐

[@AssanRaelian]

Excellent video 🙌🏾

[@rubies2905]

Love this man ❤

[@larrybarnes3866]

The hell with Juneteenth 😂 every body wants a title.

[@zaharralane3753]

Thank you Democracy Now ❤ Clint Smith ❤ and Opal Lee ❤, who at 89 years old walked approximately 1,400 miles from Texas to DC, 2.5 miles a day representing the 2 & 1/2 years between the issuance of The Emancipation Proclamation & the announcement of General Order 3 by General Gordon Granger. They want to omit & for us to forget because it is empowering to remember.

[@Boomers4Zoomers]

How can this guy and senator j.kennedy both come from LA?😢🤯

[@brutishfossil5022]

So, what day/days did "Juneteenth" actually happen on? If someone can answer this, I will stop calling "Juneteenth" racist pandering.

[@snipervictim]

Wow dude you made me feel that one TYVM !

[@Black_2_Def]

So, where's the reparations? We don't need anyone "symbolic gestures" that non-black Americans benefit from as well! Where's our federal reparations? Check?

[@sprsmoke]

Always with the hand out.

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Considering the long racist history of the Democratic Party, rich Democrats should share their enormous wealth with the poor black folks who live in this country.

[@Marco90731]

They'll create a new Bureaucracy to " distribute " the money, with no " trickle down theory ."

[@sprsmoke]

@@Marco90731 The big guy get 10%.

[@Marco90731]

No middle Men necessary and Mr Honcho better keep it at 10% , can't Uncle Sugar just sent a Check and a senior food Card to you in the mail with out all the frickin Red Tape .

[@RonnyThomas-x9u]

This history should never be lost this should be though throw out America history because we are still dealing with issues like this today 2024 the fight is on

[@sprsmoke]

What are you dealing with? Lol

[@lovely-mk4rt]

@@sprsmoke go away

[@sandal_thong8631]

We are still dealing with the fact that ~1/3 of America's wealth was derived from slavery, and perhaps another 1/3 was derived from taking land from Native Americans. If people who haven't benefited from this can't acknowledge this, then how can we expect those that did, like land-grant colleges to do so?

[@וויליאםמייאר]

The whole history is of invaluable. But exploiters cherry pick. They cherry pick Scripture. They cherry pick history. They approach everything and everyone as something to be exploited.

[@marthaallen5290]

WOW 😳😳😳

[@Boomers4Zoomers]

If you have the money you right the history.😢

[@andydarbyshire4933]

In indonesian colonised West Papua today native melanesian tribes are being decimated. Indo has a total media and visitation ban on the area. Yet you twist your self in knots because something that has been part of civilization since recorded history was delayed in some areas for 2 years because of crony practices. Why you dwell on this new division when there is so much work to do. Appearing virtuous and enlightened wirh this history records which are not hidden makes you a better person. The white men who fought and died to end slavery didnt get a mention. Just ensure you can squeeze every last drop and guilt and division from this now defeated era. How about the issue of fatherness in black communities. Nah. Too boring eh.? What about around the world...the privelage class of new marxists are doing just as much harm as those they now insist on perpetuating victimhood. Oh well forget about the malanesian tribes people in west papua for a bit longer eh?

[@LCsu999]

Something terrible has to happen sadly for the real Israelites, sold into slavery via the transatlantic slave trade to be gathered unto YAWEH Elohim. This will be the 2nd Exodus according to Deuteronomy 28 & 30. Read Revelation 2:9 & 3:9 ...the word of God is sure.

[@AnaZia-nn3ug]

Is it really the end of slavery in this country? What about having people to work two jobs without benefits or child labor in name of parental rights. There are many kinds of modern slavery.

[@jimyardon5262]

When it's all said and done America is all Indigenous people L A N D first and foremost

[@RasheedGazzi]

You won't get an argument from African Americans on that.

[@rjl5759]

😂

[@Marco90731]

The British ended Slavery in 1806 , but still profited from Southern Cotton Crops , during our Civil War the Brits developed cotton production in Egypt , mercurial Capitalism .

[@bryonbiondolillo6545]

The flirted pretty heavily with jumping in on the Confederate side ....

[@Marco90731]

@@bryonbiondolillo6545 After Gettysburg that went out the Window , the Brits did run the Blockade and Supplied the Confederacy with Warships and Weapons , they weren't ready for Civil and Human rights , I hope they reply I'm an Ancestor of Oliver Cromwell and I didn't like what he did in Jamaica and Ireland , I'm the black Sheep.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I wonder if slavery would have ended a generation or two sooner if Britain won the American Revolutionary War?

[@Marco90731]

@ French Onion : can't find you again , the Gettysburg address and the Union Army put an end to Plantation Slavery, but not the oppression of ex- slaves, 100 years later still fighting for Civil Rights .

[@cowsandpigsmaketheearthwar1471]

LOVE YOU AMY AND DEMOCRACY NOW------HAPPY FREEDOM DAY!!!! SO EMBARRASING WHAT HAPPENED IN GALVASTEN AMONG OTHER THINGS

[@andrewlim9345]

Thanks, learnt a good deal about Juneteenth. The Confederacy and the American Civil War were rooted in perpetuating history.

[@howardmctroy3303]

We had a "reckoning" four years ago. It accomplished nothing.

[@frankerck]

And she got greeted by Jim Crow Joe.

[@Zillastorm]

That poem is so powerful. I learned a lot from this interview.

[@shockcat5988]

I’m going to speak my mind about this, I think Juneteenth is a bad idea. It’s like rubbing salt in a wound, and this gets into a bigger issue. You can’t have it both ways, you can’t profess that you want a world where race doesn’t matter, and clearly indicate that you want race to matter in the way you want it too.

[@LiwaMalidina]

When

[@leslietaylor9313]

Register early and vote every republican out of office everywhere. 🌊🇺🇲👍

[@Marco90731]

And watch out for those MAGA Accolytes. 👔

[@sandal_thong8631]

The enemy is very good at de-motivating those who might vote against them. They say both parties are the same: corrupt; or your vote won't matter. And the Democratic Party gave up the fight in rural America, having contempt for radio, so they were able to spread their propaganda without dissent to those most susceptible to it. And they were tone-deaf in 2016 to those still upset and feeling left behind by 1990s globalization. They should have seen Brexit as a trial run, but apparently there's nothing to be learned from foreigners.

[@Marco90731]

The Radio might be more accurate than AI on the Net .

[@OmEvul1415]

Have to keep the borders wide open!!!

[@Marco90731]

@@OmEvul1415 But we need multiculturalism and Diversity right 👍 , now we have to feed , house , train , educate , employ, and tolerate any malfeasant behaviors, and religious and financial politics . Gavin Newsome , Joe Biden , and the Mar Lago master could invite them all to come and live with them . 🤗🤩🥳 Party , excellent ! 🤣

[@USAFAmmo]

The best way to not get shot at a black celebration is to not go.

[@RasheedGazzi]

Feel better?

[@irenezafar966]

well done, President Biden

[@themanwnoname3454]

Updates: 🗞️📰🗞️📰 “If we give up on the moral code our country believes in we’re no better than (who we are fighting).” - US Military Code “Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020 P.S. You get 2 days for every 1 you serve there bc it is so bad. “Makes me feel human again after this place.” - Oklahoma City Art Museum review after life in the local shelters (20+ years in the making), 2024 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂 I got human beings I love. Lying to them was never my thing. There is no God. Thanks to an old friend I remember the first lie I ever told :) - Me aka Ron Swanson 2.0/Ron Swanson on Snoop Dogg/a nerd free and fair elections freedom of speech & expression equal access to education rule of law freedom of peaceful assembly

[@viktorserafimov6353]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@mick8888V]

I wonder if the delay in notifying slaves in Texas wasn't entirely due to its vast spraw and more about not wanting to deliver the message?

[@sandal_thong8631]

They wanted the people in the fields. If the war ended in January, they might have let them go then and not wait over a month.

[@mick8888V]

@@sandal_thong8631 my suspicions as well

[@chadalexander292]

Those black folks lost in Detroit talking about they voting for Joe🤦🏿‍♂️the 🛋️ couch for me.

[@paulawhitehead7321]

Remember this video: "This is why reparations for the descendants of slaves must pass."

[@TafakkurTawakkul-318]

❤

[@MsNerdsRevenge]

Many forgot peovisions for our safety. There were all kinds of underground railroads. The Quakers were opposed to it. Why does no on mention how many stdres left off provions prior to creating their state. Indiana is one of them.

[@edwardharmon7590]

I feel so bad for people that never had to endure hardship.

[@nowayagain8141]

No one gives a "S" about "Juneteenth". We're all slaves

[@dimimegesis]

😢

[@dennismorris7573]

Profound.

[@Getachew-u7f]

Let the God bless the world nation To be united to live the God plan to live in the earth . God plan in this earth and for the coming world is to be included in Jesus Christ .

[@m.williams9113]

CUT THE CHECK!

[@quippy8402]

Many are still enslaved differently via money as the medium. It requires laws to pro-actively ensure citizenships basic rights for the slavery problem to be completely solved. Many are still lacking the basic rights. We should keep this in mind when we celebrate our past progress. We are not there yet.

[@mattharvey8712]

Bravo.........the big story......in the day, they were afraid, if they abolished slavery then all the people become conchess to the fact . we all become the new slaves......cheers

[@benisraelbenisrael6434]

The real Israel

[@rebeccalara4982]

❤⚡⚡⚡

[@Shadinray96]

Is she chewing on beef jerky?

[@charlesmartel4769]

The slaves brought to America longtime ago where often from tribes that took & sold slaves themselves. Many African societies, including the Bambara, the Yoruba, and the Igbo, were involved in slavery and the slave trade. The current descendants of slaves are very lucky to be here & owe America loyalty & respect. Stop the dumb victim whining.

[@feistygheisty]

YO Lady Liberty breaking shackles would have gone so much harder holy shit. Just a massive lady ripping chains with her bare hands.

[@chicaninja444]

Do you really think this is good for our black friends? It so clearly isn't. This is racist and sad. 😥

[@RasheedGazzi]

Please explain what you mean?

[@timmoore3188]

Chattel slavery may have ended. Slavery though was then codified into the Constitution in the 13th amendment under the criminal justice system.

[@sheldonbodryn1003]

Now I know why no mail today

[@tonytyler6390]

Thug dat