Juneteenth (1865)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It’s June 18th. Jody Avirgan and Nicole Hemmer discuss the history of Juneteenth — which is tomorrow, June 19th! It started as a Texas commemoration of the end of slavery, and has slowly spread throughout the country, and appears to be on its way to becoming an official holiday.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:08.0	My name is Jody Abergen.
0:10.0	This day, June 18, 186565 was the last day that slaves in Texas were subject to slavery.
0:16.5	On June 19, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston with orders to free the slaves per the Emancipation Proclamation.
0:23.0	Maybe I confused you with that timeline.
0:24.6	This is one of those shows where he fudged the date a bit.
0:26.4	But the point is, we're talking about what came to be known as Juneteenth
0:30.0	or Freedom Day or Jubilee Day celebrated on June 19th every year.
0:34.0	Here to talk about it is as always Nicole Hemmer of Columbia.
0:37.0	Hello Mickey.
0:38.0	Hello, Judy.
0:39.0	So I managed to confuse listeners and maybe myself and maybe you with the timeline there but I will say
0:43.2	that actually there's there is some confusing timeline as part of the story because
0:46.2	June 19th is the day that slaves in Texas are declared free the Emancipation Proclamation
0:51.8	was issued two years earlier the Civil War ended in April.
0:55.0	So you have this gap between quote unquote freedom and when the orders for freedom are actually delivered, what's going on there?
1:02.8	Yeah, it's a confusing thing because the Emancipation Proclamation, which is what we always
1:06.4	think of, is like, okay, this is going to end slavery.
1:09.4	It only applies to the states that are still in open rebellion against the U.S. and the U.S. on the
1:15.4	Union side there are still states that have enslaved people and so they're
1:20.0	exempted from it and like all, it only really counts once it's enforced.
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