Juneteenth – Flashcards
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When was the true death of slavery?
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June 19, 1865
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The death of slavery was how many months after the surrender of the Confederate armies?
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2 months
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Who announced the end of slavery to Texas at where?
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Major General Gordon Granger announced it at Galveston
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Who was the new president?
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Andrew Johnson
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When did Lincoln announce the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Jan. 1, 1863 (more than 2 years before Juneteenth)
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Why didn't slavery end before the Juneteenth? (Lincoln)
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Texas slaveholders ignored Lincoln and the slaves were not enlightened with this knowledge
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How many slaves were still in Texas after the war?
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About a quarter million
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How many slaves were in Texas on the eve of the Civil War? (day before war)
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About 186,000
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Why were slaves so important? What did they do?
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They produced the marketable crops or spun thread and made cloth.
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What was the life of a slave like?
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They usually had cruel conditions, no pay, no freedom
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What was the committee of the state legislature told about the conditions of the slaves? What were the conditions actually like?
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That the slaves were the happiest human beings on whom the sun shines on (liessssss). A woman said (10 years later) that slave time was actually hell.
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What percentage of Texas could claim southern heritage?
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90%
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When did Texas vote to secede? Ratio?
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1861. 3 to 1 margin
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Why was Texas becoming a refuge for slave owners?
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The federal armies were advancing, so slave owners took their slaves and took refuge in Texas.
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When Granger came to Galveston, how much had the slave population increased?
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35%
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What did the Molly Harrell recall? (a former slave thinking back on Juneteenth)
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That they all walked down the road singing and shouting, a woman tossed her child in the air exclaiming freedom, and another woman speaking with much sass about no more whippings
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What happened to the slaves once they were free?
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The former slaves needed to find jobs and a source of income, wanted to find auctioned family, most were eager to leave, some stayed loyal and remained with their owners
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How many African Americans live in Texas "today"?
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More than two million
