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Happy Emancipation Day! August 1st in most of the Commonwealth. Some countries celebrate it on the first Monday/Tuesday.
It's celebrated all over the Caribbean and sometimes in different names, but it should be more well known!!
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Happy Emancipation Day to my Afro-Caribbean cousins!!!
Happy Emancipation Day!
On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Britain played a key role in the dehumanisation, oppression and trading of West African slaves. The British Empire was built on this slavery. The British Government paid slaveowners and their descendants reparations up until 2015, whilst descendants of slaves, including the Windrush Generation, were given nothing. Slaveowner statues and streets named after them still exist in the UK to this day.
Emancipation Day is celebrated by various West Indian countries that were colonised and brutalised by the British Empire: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Belize, the Bahamas, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Guyana, Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands.
It is also celebrated by Black people in other parts of the diaspora such as Canada, the USA and South Africa.
Never let the British state forget or wash their hands of what they've done.
Happy fifth of July/Emancipation day! Did you know that NY has its own Juneteenth/jubilee day? As a descendant of those enslaved in NY, I encourage people to learn about the history of slavery and antiblackness within the state. A lot of injustices that happened here have been erased from history, meaning it’s of the utmost importance that we learn about these atrocities so they’ll never be forgotten. Some topics I recommend learning about are the historical black neighborhood that ended up erased and is now known as Central Park. I’d also rec learning about how the Bronx zoo displayed living human beings along with the history of human zoos in general. There’s also the topic of red-lining and other policies which kept NY heavily segregated, plus the topic of slave revolts within NY, along with the history of NY slave markets.(Which yes Wall Street was). Today, is a day of both celebration and mourning, so while we reflect let’s not forget those who fought for us and continue their fight for Justice and equality.
In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty
Sunshine Girls (Team Jamaica) with a BIG win over world number 1 Australia
It's not done (and I don't just mean in sport) but
Happy Emancipation Day 👏🏾❤🇯🇲
Juneteenth (19 June), or Emancipation Day, commemorates the day US troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the government had abolished slavery, more than two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on 1 January 1863.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed at least 3.5 million enslaved people in Confederate states (states supporting slavery) during the US Civil War (1861-65). Although Lincoln initially freed enslaved Africans so they could join the US military, the goalpost moved when he decided saving the Union (non-slaveholding states) meant abolishing slavery.
Many enslavers took refuge in Texas with their enslaved people, seeing it as a haven for slavery. As Union states gained the upper hand, many Black people gained freedom, but not those in Texas.
While local Juneteenth celebrations saw a resurgence in the late 20th century, US President Joe Biden made it a federal holiday in 2021.
Unfortunately, freedom did not come with reparations and equality. To this day, descendants of enslaved Africans suffer physical and mental ailments—such as high blood pressure and kidney disease, to name a few—are nine times poorer than their white counterparts, and Black men are four times more likely to be imprisoned than white men.
Could the payment of reparations for US slavery complete the memory of Juneteenth? Let us know in the comments.
Happy Emancipation Day! Hope you like this golden beauty!
Vibing with the sunset and putting flowers in each other's hair is an Emancipation Day well spent.
