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If you're in Houston this weekend, come honor history with us. Saturday June 20, 8am. We unveil lynching markers honoring four individuals in Harris County and present the Remembrance Park concept design. 1001 Preston St. RSVP: bit.ly/RemembranceParkReveal #Juneteenth #Houston
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Photographs of early #Juneteenth celebrations across Texas and beyond: publicdomainreview.org/colle… #JuneteenthDay #juneteenth2021
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜
Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️
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ALT Full text of General Orders No. 3, across two pages, dated June 19, 1865, from Headquarters District of Texas in Galveston, Texas, bearing a blue "War Records Copied 1861–1865" stamp. The handwritten document announces that all slaves are free in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, establishes absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and redefines their relationship as that between employer and hired labor. It advises freedmen to remain at their present homes and work for wages, noting they will not be allowed to collect at military posts or be supported in idleness. Signed by order of Major General Granger by R.W. Emery, Major A.A. General.
ALT Page 1 of a scanned handwritten ledger from Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, Texas, bearing blue "War Records Copied 1861–1865" stamps. Contains General Orders Nos. 1, 2, and the beginning of No. 3, dated June 17–19, 1865, signed by Major General G. Granger.
ALT Page 2 of a scanned handwritten ledger from Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, Texas. Contains the conclusion of General Orders No. 3 — the Juneteenth order freeing all slaves in Texas — and the full text of General Orders No. 4, dated June 19, 1865.
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to read Order No. 3, which affirmed the end of slavery in the states of the former Confederacy. This momentous occasion became known as #Juneteenth, a combination of “June” & “19th." More: s.si.edu/40a7yVG
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Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "A Likely handy negro boy about 14 years, to be sold for want of employ." (New-York Gazette & Weekly Mercury 3/25/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "To be SOLD or HIRED, A NEGRO [woman]... with a child... She will be exchanged for a handy boy" (New-York Gazette & Weekly Mercury 3/25/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "COMMITTED to Essex [Jail], a Negro Man who says his Name is JAMES." (Virginia Gazette [Dixon & Hunter] 3/23/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during era of American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away... a negro fellow named Nick... says he is a freeman... capable of doing almost any kind of business.” (Constitutional Gazette 2/14/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “TO BE SOLD, A LIKELY NEGRO [WOMAN] ... can do all sorts of house work ... Enquire of the Printer." (Pennsylvania Journal 2/7/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "SIX DOLLARS Reward. RAN away ... a NEGRO MAN named Newry ... a cooper by trade." (Pennsylvania Evening Post 2/6/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “Reward of FIFTY DOLLARS for the Recovery of the Negro Fellow Jack" who was taken by pirates. (New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury 2/5/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away ... a mulatto man, named GABRIEL ... He has a free woman for his wife." (Virginia Gazette [Pinkney] 2/3/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. For appprending a Runaway. JAMES, a mulatto slave, sometimes known by the name of Vulcan" (Maryland Gazette 2/1/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “To be sold ... for ready money only ... a negro woman cook, healthy, honest and sober." (Maryland Gazette 2/1/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “For SALE, A Likely handy NEGRO [WOMAN] ... sold for no fault but want of cash.” (New-York Gazette & Weekly Mercury 1/22/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RAN away ... a country born negro ... named Will ... had about his neck an iron collar.” (Virginia Gazette [Pinkney] 1/20/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “To be SOLD ... ALL the remaining slaves of the estate of col. John Martin, deceased.” (Virginia Gazette [Purdie] 1/19/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during era of the American Revolution contributed to perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “TO BE SOLD, TWO NEGRO MEN ... one of them a valuable and compleat farmer ... the other a genteel footman.” (Dunlap's Pennsylvania Packet 1/15/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away ... SAWNEY, a likely Virginia born Negro Man Slave.” Aided by his "many Relations." (Virginia Gazette [Dixon & Hunter] 1/13/1776)
Tweets_From_Runaway_Enslaved_People retweeted
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN away ... a negro boy named Cato ... appears he has exchanged some of his outside cloaths.” (New-England Chronicle 1/11/1776)
