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On juneteenth annette gordon reed6/4/2023 ![]() 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. ![]() The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Texas native. ![]() “It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” -Annette Gordon-Reed ![]()
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