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Slavery in California ~ California State Library Exhibit ~ 1865 Project
Myths, Lies and the Mis-Education of the Negro is on full display as chattel slavery in the California State Capitol, Sacramento remains an open secret. Juneteenth, A National Freedom Celebration is being celebrated throughout the United States and the State of California. California State Library staff must be directed to present the authentic legacy of California 1840 - 1865 with salient exhibits to California Juneteenth.
California State Library celebrates Juneteenth with a display of items from its collection documenting the African American experience in the state during the years leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation and after. The exhibit is in the main lobby of the library at 900 N Street in Sacramento. It is open weekdays, 8 to 5, and is free to the public.
Among the many treasures on exhibit are the first California printing of the Emancipation Proclamation [San Francisco: 1864] and a bill of sale by Thomas of Tennessee, an enslaved pioneer who came west in 1850 with slaveholder J.B. Gilman to work in the gold mines, two years later had saved a thousand dollars to buy his freedom.
Slavery in California continues to be intentionally suppressed by some and internalized oppression mandates others to support the notion.
This year is the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it is time to open up the archives, museums and libraries to share source documents as we prepare for the 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth.
Staff must be given specific direction, Curator Gary Kurutz, Special Collections Librarian Emeritus continues to do an amazing job without salient legislative intent and direction. A Black History Month exhibit during Summer recess lacks focus and direction.
The authentic slave auction blocks in Old Sacramento, a few steps from the California Supreme Court Chambers can come alive during annual California Juneteenth Celebrations. Slavery persisted throughout California without legal authority. Southern slave owners simply refused to notify their slaves of the prohibition, and continued to trade enslaved human beings as property.
Juneteenth is a National Celebration of Freedom, sadly Slavery in California and the long difficult journey towards freedom is cloaked in myths, lies and the Mis-Education of the Negro. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, creator of today's Black History Month, seminal work is the beginning of a clear methodology to share authentic California Juneteenth History.
In the City of San Bernardino a resurrection of Juneteenth, inclusive of the slave trade throughout the Inland Empire, will help lead the way.
It will be an interfaith, intergenerational, and international effort, exactly the way it was "Growing California" (1840 - 1865) as the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, December 18, 1865, began the enforcement of a new way forward, healing what continues to hurt America, systemic institutional racism.
Among the many treasures on exhibit are the first California printing of the Emancipation Proclamation [San Francisco: 1864] and a bill of sale by Thomas of Tennessee, an enslaved pioneer who came west in 1850 with slaveholder J.B. Gilman to work in the gold mines, two years later had saved a thousand dollars to buy his freedom.
Slavery in California continues to be intentionally suppressed by some and internalized oppression mandates others to support the notion.
This year is the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it is time to open up the archives, museums and libraries to share source documents as we prepare for the 150th Anniversary of Juneteenth.
Staff must be given specific direction, Curator Gary Kurutz, Special Collections Librarian Emeritus continues to do an amazing job without salient legislative intent and direction. A Black History Month exhibit during Summer recess lacks focus and direction.
The authentic slave auction blocks in Old Sacramento, a few steps from the California Supreme Court Chambers can come alive during annual California Juneteenth Celebrations. Slavery persisted throughout California without legal authority. Southern slave owners simply refused to notify their slaves of the prohibition, and continued to trade enslaved human beings as property.
Juneteenth is a National Celebration of Freedom, sadly Slavery in California and the long difficult journey towards freedom is cloaked in myths, lies and the Mis-Education of the Negro. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, creator of today's Black History Month, seminal work is the beginning of a clear methodology to share authentic California Juneteenth History.
In the City of San Bernardino a resurrection of Juneteenth, inclusive of the slave trade throughout the Inland Empire, will help lead the way.
It will be an interfaith, intergenerational, and international effort, exactly the way it was "Growing California" (1840 - 1865) as the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, December 18, 1865, began the enforcement of a new way forward, healing what continues to hurt America, systemic institutional racism.
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