Juneteenth
This is the year enslaved allegedly learned of their freedom
1865
Reconstruction lasted for this 12 year time period
1865- 1877
The emancipation proclamation to free slaves only applied to this categoy of states
The 11 Confederate states. Not any border states.
On the British colony of Jamaica, along with all British colonies, slavery officially ended in this year
1838
Prisons are compared to slavery because of corporations access to cheap black labor. While prisons do create profit. What is the primary purpose of prisons?
Counterinsurgency — to deter resistance of capitalism outside of prison
[blank] hundred thousand fought in the Union Army.
two
Black people reconstructed all the state constitutions during reconstruction to include free public [blank]
education
Sending Black people back to Africa was a plan supported by this U.S. president
Lincoln
This Portuguese colony ended slavery in this year. It was the last vestige of slavery in the Americas. Name the country and the year.
Brazil. 1888.
After emancipation. This system allowed imprisoned black people to be leased out to corporations to complete various tasks.
Convict lease system.
This president signed off on Juneteenth as a holiday to partially distract from the government's ineffective response to a national uprising about police brutality
Biden
"The slave went free, stood for a brief moment in the sun then moved back again towards slavery"
Which Black 20th century scholar wrote these words describing reconstruction
WEB Du Bois
These 3 amendments gave constitutional power to the Emancipation Proclamation
13th, 14th, 15th
The emancipation proclamation was a war strategy that freed all the slaves….only in this region. All the other slave states were allowed to continue slavery.
Rebel states. The confederacy.
After the abolition of slavery, former slave states passed new legislation in order to regulate the behavior of free blacks in ways similar to those that had existed during slavery. These laws proscribed a range of actions-such as vagrancy, absence from work, breach of job contracts, the possession of firearms, and insulting gestures or acts—that were criminalized only when the person charged was black.
Black codes
this phrase describes when enslaved people stopped producing profit for their masters, walked off plantations and fought for abolition.
General Strike
These corporate groups benefited from Black providing industrial education. These educational institutions would grow to become HBCUs
Northern industrial Philantropists (Rockefellers and other ultra rich people)
By the time Lincoln put out the Emancipation proclamation. This slave holding state had only been apart of the U.S. for a little over a decade. It used to be its own country.
Texas.
In order to keep their slaves, these texas slave holders fled to this French occupied country before, during, and after Juneteenth.
Mexico
Which radical black woman famously said this:
All the differences between the North and the South were economic, not moral. For capitalists to control the economy and the political system, the slave system had to be defeated.
Assata Shakur
This 2020 movie has almost nothing to do with Juneteenth
Miss Juneteenth
In the book Black Reconstruction, du bois describes poor white people collaborating with rich white people against black people over time. Poor white people did this to their own economic demise. What is this concept called.
Wages of whiteness/ class collaboration
After the emancipation proclamation, this border state was able to maintain slavery because they remained loyal to the union. Even though their neighbor to the north were Forced to free their slaves two years earlier.
Maryland
Slavery continued in Texas as late 1868. 3 years after Juneteenth. Some sold their slaves to Brazil and Cuba for a price. Black people in Texas, who were technically not enslaved, were forced to sign these or else be killed.
Work contracts.