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Summary:

"The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. All too aware of the stories of cowboys, ranchers, and oilmen that have long dominated the lore of the Lone Star State, Gordon-Reed - herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s - forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state, with implications for us all"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• "This, then, is Texas"
• A Texas town
• Origin stories : Africans in Texas
• People of the past and the present
• Remember the Alamo
• On Juneteenth
• Coda.

Author/Creator:

Gordon-Reed, Annette, author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

On Juneteenth [by Gordon-Reed, A.]

Subjects:

Juneteenth
Slaves > Emancipation > Texas
African Americans > Texas > Galveston > History
African Americans > Anniversaries, etc.
African Americans > Social life and customs
Slaves > Emancipation > United States
Slaves > Emancipation
Slaves
African Americans
Texas > Galveston
Texas
United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148).

Physical Description:

148 pages : map ; 20 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map

Call Numbers:

E185.93.T4 G67 2021

ISBNs:

9781631498831 (hardcover)
1631498835 (hardcover)
9781631498848 (electronic publication) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021007777

OCLC Numbers:

1196176524