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Juneteenth

Although the Emancipation Proclamation was formally issued on January 1, 1863, emancipation did not reach across the entire United States until June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger read “General Order #3″ to announce the message of the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas. Until that date, slavery in Texas had continued unabated. The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is a legal holiday in New Jersey pursuant to NJSA 36:2-80. This list explores the history and impact of slavery and emancipation in America.

Princeton Public Library

28 items

  • Book, 2021New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — History 326.092 Gor
  • May We Forever Stand

    a History of the Black National Anthem

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    Book, 2018Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] — Performing Arts 782.25 Per
  • Watermelon & Red Birds

    a Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

    Taylor, Nicole A.,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022. — Cooking 641.5683 Tay
  • The Survivors of the Clotilda

    the Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

    Durkin, Hannah,
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — History 306.362 Dur
  • Africatown

    America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created

    Tabor, Nick,
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — History 306.362 Tab
  • How the Word Is Passed

    a Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

    Smith, Clint,
    Book, 2021New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2021] — History 973.049 Smi
  • Read Until You Understand

    the Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

    Griffin, Farah Jasmine,
    Book, 2021New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2021. — Literature 810.989 Gri
  • South to America

    a Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

    Perry, Imani, 1972-
    Book, 2022New York, NY : ECCO, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — History 976 Per
  • The Devil's Half Acre

    the Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

    Green, Kristen (Journalist),
    Book, 2022New York : Seal Press, 2022. — History 306.362 Gre
  • A Question of Freedom

    the Families Who Challenged Slavery From the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

    Thomas, William G., 1964-
    eBook, 2020New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
  • To Walk About in Freedom

    the Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

    Emberton, Carole,
    Book, 2022New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] — History 306.362 Emb
  • River of Blood

    American Slavery From the People Who Lived It : Interviews & Photographs of Formerly Enslaved African Americans

    Book, 2020Chicago : CityFiles Press, [2020] — History 306.362 Riv
  • Combee

    Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War

    Fields-Black, Edda L.,
    Book, 2024New York : Oxford University Press, 2024 — History 973.734 Fie
  • Lift Every Voice

    a Celebration of Black Lives

    Winfrey, Oprah,
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Hearst Home, 2022. — History 973 Lif
  • The Fire This Time

    a New Generation Speaks About Race

    Book, 2016New York : Scribner, 2016. — History 305.896 Fir
  • Sleeping With the Ancestors

    How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

    McGill, Joseph,
    Book, 2023New York : Hachette Books, 2023. — History 306.362 McG
  • All That She Carried

    the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    Miles, Tiya, 1970-
    Book, 2021New York : Random House, 2021. — History 306.362 Mil