GMcGath on Nostr: To some extent, #Juneteenth has an unintended negative educational effect. It ...
To some extent, #Juneteenth has an unintended negative educational effect. It promotes the myth that the Emancipation Proclamation put a legal end to slavery in the USA, when in fact the slave states that didn't secede kept it till the Thirteenth Amendment went into effect.
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