Happy Juneteenth! A reminder that none are free until all are free, and slavery and subhuman treatment has never been stopped by legislation alone. It takes all of us to care about one another and commit to justice for all, actively, in the ways that we can.
Slaves were emancipated in 1863, but Antoinette Harrell says her genealogical research revealed many of them were kept on plantations, inclu
"1973 is really, really not long ago," Harrell said of when the modern day slaves finally left Waterford Plantation. "That's in my lifetime. I was 13 years old, and the history books are teaching me that slavery was abolished and Lincoln freed the slaves. Was this just on paper? What about the people left on Waterford Plantation? Whitney Plantation? The history books failed to teach us that slavery wasn't truly abolished, just on paper, but in actuality it was not for hundreds of thousands of people left behind."
