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curious about how the news of Emancipation Proclamation spread to enslaved people.

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It is important to look at our country's past and our present legislation in order to understand inequities that exist, such as the loophole in the 13th amendment which alongside the history of our country incarcerating black people at very high rates explains the high rates of black people in prison today.

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I found it interesting to see the comparison between Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation, and to compare their productivities in ending slavery in the US. To me it was most surprising that Juneteenth is considered the longest-running African American holiday, but it was only federalized last year. 

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I found it interesting to see the comparison between Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation, and to compare their productivities in ending slavery in the US. To me it was most surprising that Juneteenth is considered the longest-running African American holiday, but it was only federalized last year. 

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Why Juneteenth as the day to commemorate the end of slavery as opposed to the ratification of 13th Amendment? On the original Juneteenth, slavery still legally existed in the border states of Missouri and Kentucky.

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It's surprising that Texas was the first state to make Juneteenth an official holiday given that it was the last place where the slaves were freed --and that slaveholders fled there as other states became free. I wonder how Texas became the first state to recognize it ahead of other states.

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I learned that Juneteenth is related to Texas, which I never found out before. Usually when we talk about south and emancipating slaves, we tend to think about states like Virginia or Mississippi. Texas seems like a states that's left out, so I'm happy to learn more about it. Emancipation Proclamation, as we discussed last time, has very different sides,which I think it's very interesting how politicians will do to protect their achievements.

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Emancipation Proclamation -> Juneteenth 

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Emancipation Proclamation -> Juneteenth 

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One interesting thing I learned in the handout and also in previous years of schooling was about how the Emancipation Proclamation was received. Like the handout said, many owners did not reveal the Emancipation Proclamation to their slaves until after the harvest season. Part of this was due to literacy barriers which we learned about in other readings of this unit. Most slaves were discouraged against reading and so they were in turn denied access to knowing about crucial things affecting our government like the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Something I found really interesting is the use of music in commemorating Juneteenth. Music is definitely something that unites all people. I remember in the Darker Face of the Earth music played a big role in the community and kinship the enslaved people formed on the plantation.

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Something new I learned today revolved around the ideas of the social constraints that remain in our day to day lives like racism. Watching the video made me re-evaluate the legacy of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation in terms of the gaps that still remain in society today and in the past, (in mass incarceration, vaccine numbers, housing availability, slavery etc.).

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From my previous years of learning about the Emancipation Proclamation, I thought that change was immediate, but that's not true. It took over 2 years for change to start, that wasn't something that I knew too much about. Everything was also extremely vague and left room for loopholes.

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I thought it was really interesting how many slave owners chose to flee to Texas instead of the border states that were pro-slavery, such as Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, or Maryland.

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I now know that when the Emancipation Proclamation was written, America still was a long way away from getting rid of slavery completely. It took other events, moments, and days such as Juneteenth to actually create the 13th amendment.

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One question/discussion topic that I am still wondering about is whether or not Juneteenth would have become a national holiday in 2021 without all of the call to action for racial justice after the killing of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

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Something new I learned today was how slave owners used a loophole in the 13th Amendment to be able to still own and punish slaves. "Except as a punishment for crime".