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Author Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.

Title On Juneteenth / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Publisher New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

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Edition First edition.
Physical Description 148 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Note 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.
Summary In this combination of American history, a dramatic family chronicle, and episodes of memoir, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, the author recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.
Subject Juneteenth.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Texas.
African Americans -- Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.