#watchnight

[r0ssx-x]

They said my favorite buzzword in a crepcast episode i know they did because i was rewatching it & i heard them say it i need to find the timestamp & go back so i can make some incoherent image with it

[thechanelmuse]

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

Americans are likely to think of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a time to celebrate the fresh start that a new year represents, but there is also a troubling side to the holiday’s history. In the years before the Civil War, the first day of the new year was often a heartbreaking one for enslaved people in the United States.

In the Black American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the Black abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families. The renting out of slave labor was a relatively common practice in the antebellum South, and a profitable practice for white slave owners and hirers.“

‘Hiring Day’ was part of the larger economic cycle in which most debts were collected and settled on New Year’s Day,” says Alexis McCrossen, an expert on the history of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and a professor of history at Southern Methodist University, who writes about Hiring Day in her forthcoming book Time’s Touchstone: The New Year in American Life.

Some enslaved people were put up for auction that day, or held under contracts that started in January. (These transactions also took place all year long and contracts could last for different amounts of time.) These deals were conducted privately among families, friends and business contacts, and slaves were handed over in town squares, on courthouse steps and sometimes simply on the side of the road, according to Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South by Jonathan D. Martin.

Accounts of the cruelty of Hiring Day come from records left by those who secured their freedom, who described spending the day before January 1 hoping and praying that their hirers would be humane and that their families could stay together.

“Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,” a slave named Lewis Clarke said in an 1842 account.

“On New Year’s Day, we went to the auctioneer’s block, to be hired to the highest bidder for one year,” Israel Campbell wrote in a memoir published in 1861 in Philadelphia, in which he describes being hired out three times.

“That’s where that sayin’ comes from that what you do on New Year’s Day you’ll be doin’ all the rest of the year,” a former slave known as Sister Harrison said in an interview in 1937.

Harriet Jacobs wrote a particularly detailed account in “The Slaves’ New Year’s Day” chapter of her 1861 autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. “Hiring-day at the south takes place on the 1st of January. On the 2[n]d, the slaves are expected to go to their new masters,” she wrote. She observed slave owners and farmers renting out their human chattel for extra income during the period between the cotton and corn harvests and the next planting season. From Christmas to New Year’s Eve, many families would “wait anxiously” to find out whether they would be rented out, and to whom. On New Year’s Day, “At the appointed hour the grounds are thronged with men, women, and children, waiting, like criminals to hear their doom pronounced,” Jacobs wrote.

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Another fact:

“’Watch Night Service’ in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31, 1862 during the Civil War, free and freed Black people living in the Union States gathered at churches and/or other safe spaces, while thousands of their enslaved Black sisters and brothers stood, knelt and prayed on plantations and other slave holding sites in America — waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation into law.”  (Source)

SN: Thought I’d include that part too because sometimes Black Americans tend to do things out of tradition without realizing the significance that tradition upholds. I’m not a part of a particular religion anymore, but when I used to go to church with my family (out of tradition), I never knew the meaning of Watch Night, which is also known as “Freedom’s Eve,” because the meaning behind it was never talked about. It should be noted that non-Black Christian who also acknowledge “Watch Night,” which is also spelled as one word, upkeep this tradition for different reasons: 

Here’s more historical context on Watch Night:

The first Watch Night service began with the Moravians, “a small Christian denomination whose roots lie in what is the present-day Czech Republic” in 1733 on the estates of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf in Hernhut, Germany. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Movement, picked up the tradition from the Moravians and incorporated it into Methodism as a time for Methodists to renew their covenant with God and to contemplate their state of grace in light of the second coming of Christ. Wesley believed that all Christians should reaffirm their covenant with God annually. He held Watch Night services between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on the Friday nearest the full moon and on New Year’s Eve.

The first Methodist Watch night service in the United States probably took place in 1770 at Old St. George’s Church in Philadelphia, a church of which Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church, was a member. Black American Methodists celebrated Watch Night prior to Freedom’s Eve because Allen and other Black Americans celebrated Watch Night Meeting services at St. George’s Church and also at Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

While acknowledging the Methodist starting point, many Black American Christians link their celebration of the tradition to December 31, 1862, “Freedom’s Eve.”

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[evangelistdag]

2019: EXPECT A SERIES OF VICTORIES

4th January 2019

Expect a series of victories in 2019. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4). Your faith is the obedience and implementation of the word of God in your life. Faith without works is nothing (James 2:17). As you obey and implement the word of God, you begin to have faith. As you implement one thing after the other, you will find yourself having more and victories. You will keep changing and your life will be changing.

In Luke 2, you will find the beginning of the series of victories that you are going to experience. One of the greatest victories you will have is to be like Jesus Christ your savior. These things will happen in your life in 2019. “And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him” (Luke 2:40). You are going to grow! When you are a grown-up, what you once could not carry before you are able to carry and what you could not bear you are able to bear. In 2019, you are growing up to be stronger and more capable in every area of your life. This year, it is not about decreasing but about increasing in your life. Expect to grow in every aspect of your life. You are going to be stronger in spirit than ever before! You are going to be stronger spiritually. If you lie easily, you are not spiritual. Lies are our defense for our mistakes and our mistakes are many. When you are strong in spirit, up tend to be more truthful. From this year, you are going to be stronger in spirit. You are going to be filled with God’s wisdom! Not the wisdom of the world. Do not admire what the world admires. When you see that the whole world admires something, start noticing red flags in your spirit. Develop allergies and antibodies against the things the world admires. Do not admire what the world admires. It leads you on a path because it the wisdom of this world. “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but it earthly, sensual, devilish” (James 3:15). In 2019, you will be filled with God’s wisdom. The grace of God is going to be on your life in 2019. Grace means undeserved favor. This year, many things you do not deserve, God will do for you. You do not deserve a beloved because you have broken seven hearts already but God will do it for you. You do not deserve a child because you have thrown away so many children already but God will give you what you do not deserve. You do not deserve a job because you are too proud to work humbly but the grace of God will give you the job you do not deserve. You do not deserve to be helped because when it was your time to help, you did not do it but the grace of God will give you this undeserved help. In 2019, may you experience things you do not deserve in Jesus’ mighty name. In 2019, expect a series of victories. Expect what you do not deserve in Jesus name.

Blessings!

[ritware1850]

Reposted from @joyannreid A blessed Watch Night to all. ❤️ #newyearseve #watchnight #history #1962 #colored #enslaved #blackpeople #blackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/CdmgRYuDp-3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[calebyap]

“What gift can we bring, what present, what token?

What words can convey it the joy of this day?

When grateful we come, remembering, rejoicing,

what song can we now offer in honor and praise?

Give thanks for the past, for those who had vision,

who planted and watered so dreams could come true.

Give thanks for the Now, for study, for worship,

for mission that bids us turn prayer into deed.

Give thanks for Tomorrow, full of surprises,

for knowing whatever Tomorrow may bring,

the Word is our promise always, forever,

we rest in God's keeping and live in God's love.

This gift we now bring, this present, this token,

these words can convey it the joy of this day!

When grateful we come, remembering, rejoicing,

this song we now offer in honor and praise.”

- Jane Marshall

[calebyap]

“”Wake, awake, for night is flying,"

the watchmen on the heights are crying;

"Awake, Jerusalem, arise!"

Midnight hears the welcome voices

and at the thrilling cry rejoices:

"Where are the virgins pure and wise?

The Bridegroom comes: Awake!

Your lamps with gladness take!

Alleluia!

With bridal care and faith's bold prayer,

to meet the Bridegroom, come, prepare!"

Zion hears the watchmen singing,

and in her heart new joy is springing.

She wakes, she rises from her gloom.

For her Lord comes down all-glorious

and strong in grace, in truth victorious.

Her star is risen, her light is come!

Now come, O Blessed One,

Lord Jesus, God's own Son.

Sing hosanna!

We answer all in joy your call;

we follow to the wedding hall.

Lamb of God, the heavens adore you,

the saints and angels sing before you

with harp and cymbals' clearest tone.

Of one pearl each shining portal,

where, joining with the choir immortal,

we gather round your radiant throne.

No eye has seen that light,

no ear the echoed might

of your glory;

yet there shall we in victory

sing shouts of joy eternally!”

- Catherine Winkworth

[calebyap]

Another year of setting suns,

Of stars by night revealed,

Of springing grass, of tender buds,

By winter’s snow concealed.

Another year of summer’s glow,

Of autumn’s gold and brown,

Of waving fields, and ruddy fruit

The branches weighing down.

Another year of happy work

That better is than play;

Of simple care, and love that grows

More sweet from day to day.

Another year of baby mirth

And childhood’s blessèd ways;

Of thinker’s thought, and prophet’s dream,

And poet’s tender lays.

Another year at Beauty’s feast,

At every moment spread;

Of silent hours, when grow distinct

The voices of the dead.

Another year to follow hard

Where better souls have trod;

Another year of life’s delight;

Another year of God!

- John White Chadwick

[y2shae]

🐦 https://bit.ly/39t4RTl On December 31, 1862, #WatchNight began as a ritual Africans created in northern US churches to mark the #EmancipationProclamation going into effect. Lincoln "freed" no one. At 12:01, many Africans got off their knees and subsequently picked up guns to free the rest of us. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6xFvRAHm0f/?igshid=unks60jdw3zq