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Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537684918
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781514328415
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History books teach that the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863. However, those books make no mention that 250,000 Texas slaves were not freed until two and a half years later -- on June 19, 1865. Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, announced the end of the Civil War, read an order declaring slaves residing in Texas were free, and threatened slaveholders with imprisonment. It was a day of celebration. The freed slaves danced in the streets. Having had no access to formal education, June 19, 1865 became known to the freed slaves as "Juneteenth." Each year the freed slaves celebrated the end of slavery. June 19, 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth as well as the official end of slavery in the United States. Hundreds of descendants of the former slaves who gained their freedom on Juneteenth returned to Geneva, Texas on Saturday, June 20, 2015 in remembrance and honor of those who created a legacy in the face of adversity, most of whom are buried in the three community cemeteries: County Line Cemetery, Dennis Cemetery, and New Zion Cemetery.Our ancestors gave us a gift that has been shared with each generation. They impressed upon us that we each were someone special. They showed us that through God, all things are possible if we have patience, continue to work hard, survive the rough times, benefit from others' wisdom, and maintain a passion for knowledge. On Saturday, June 20, 2015, we gathered before God to testify that our ancestors have done their job. Each generation developed their gift from God - their children - to the best of their potential. Our gift to them is the assurance that we give to our children the same sense of destiny that they have provided and nurtured in each of us.We are the proof of the enormous strength of our ancestors. Even in their time of greatest need, they still thought of us and persevered through a lifetime of bitter slavery so that their descendants might one day enjoy the sweet taste of freedom.
Author : Yolanda Wright Bozant
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533688859
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Wright Bozant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendants for formers slaves of Sabine County to return to Geneva to celebration the 151st year of freedom.
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781720872474
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. It had been illegal to teach a slave to read or write. Therefore, the emancipated slaves were unfamiliar with The Queen's English, particularly the calendar months and dates. Hence, they referred to their date of freedom, JUNE 19, as JUNETEENTH. In newly formed Black communities across the South, the 19th of June was equivalent to the 4th of July. It was a day of great celebration for the former slaves. In June 2015, our East Texas family returned to their roots to remember and honor our enslaved ancestors' and celebrate their day of freedom. At that time it was decided that we would continue to make an annual trek to Geneva during the third weekend in June to celebrate Juneteenth. Join us as we rejoice and celebrate the message Our Ancestors received 153 years ago in Galveston, Texas: "...ALL SLAVES ARE FREE."
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors - Juneteenth 2020 written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a sacred time for the Geneva descendants, as we follow that red dirt road and return to our roots, to Remember and Honor Our Enslaved Ancestors.Our extended family comes together annually in Geneva, Texas (Sabine County) on the third weekend in June to celebrate the message Our Enslaved Ancestors heard in 1865: "ALL SLAVES ARE FREE"You are invited to EXPERIENCE JUNETEENTH IN GENEVA! Join the descendants of the former slaves in East Texas when we are able to make our next annual trek to the place Our Ancestors were Enslaved, Emancipated, and Established lives as free Americans.#GenevaDontLeaveHer
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781534607156
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Family's celebration of freedom for formerly enslaved Our Ancestors in Sabine County, East Texas.
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515373261
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendants of freed slaves who settled in the East Texas hamlet of Geneva return to honor their ancestors and celebrate 150 years of Freedom!
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781720834144
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. It had been illegal to teach a slave to read or write. Therefore, the emancipated slaves were unfamiliar with The Queen's English, particularly the calendar months and dates. Hence, they referred to their date of freedom, JUNE 19, as JUNETEENTH.In newly formed Black communities across the South, the 19th of June was equivalent to the 4th of July. It was a day of great celebration for the former slaves.In June 2015, our East Texas family returned to their roots to remember and honor our enslaved ancestors' and celebrate their day of freedom. At that time it was decided that we would continue to make an annual trek to Geneva during the third weekend in June to celebrate Juneteenth.Join us as we rejoice and celebrate the message Our Ancestors received 153 years ago in Galveston, Texas: "...ALL SLAVES ARE FREE."
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517006730
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Remembering and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendants of former slaves returned to the place where their ancestors began life as Free Americans to celebrate the emancipation of Texas slaves in 1865. Contains 27 pages of photos from the "Juneteenth" celebration, personalized messages for their families, and historical information.
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781547288335
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Remember and Honoring Our Enslaved Ancestors - Juneteenth 2017 written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Favreau
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620970449
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Remembering Slavery written by Marc Favreau and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Author : Harriet Rohmer
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892391585
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Honoring Our Ancestors written by Harriet Rohmer and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen artists and picture book illustrators present paintings with descriptions of ancestors or other sources of inspiration that have inspired them.
Author : Yolanda Pierce
Publisher : Broadleaf Books
ISBN 13 : 1506464726
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)
Download or read book In My Grandmother's House written by Yolanda Pierce and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother? The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the terrors of the South, Pierce's grandmother raised her in the faith inherited from those who were enslaved. Now, in the pages of In My Grandmother's House, Pierce reckons with that tradition, building an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures, experiences in the Black church, and truths from Black women's lives. Pierce tells stories that center the experiences of those living on the underside of history, teasing out the tensions of race, spirituality, trauma, freedom, resistance, and memory. A grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. The Divine has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women for a long time. It's time to get to know that God.
Author : Yolanda Bozant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515276159
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Juneteenth 2015 Souvenir Book - First Edition written by Yolanda Bozant and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to "our" First Annual Juneteenth Celebration! The events you witness this weekend are the manifestation of a dream from years ago. It was the strangest of dreams. I don't remember when the dream occurred but I clearly recall that I was in Geneva, Texas with scores of family members. As I looked around the crowd at all the faces, very few were familiar - but they were all my relatives. The strangest part about the dream was that my Grandma Lula's house was gone! I don't know how long her house had been in The Quarters but she gave birth to my grandmother (Mattie Canton) in that home in 1902. There was another oddity. All the guests joined hands around a swimming pool and had prayer. A swimming pool? In Geneva? Yeah, right.This weekend we are in Geneva, Texas. My Grandma Lula's house is gone. (In the summer of 2013 it exploded in the middle of the night.) Cousins Jordan "Peanut' and Reena Jones Washington returned to their roots and built a home on the original land purchased by their ancestors' ... and recently added a swimming pool! Here we stand with our feet touching the very soil on which our ancestors stood, celebrating their emancipation. Our promise to them is that we will continue to pass Our Legacy and Our History to Our Children and Our Grandchildren - just as Our Parents and Our Grandparents passed it to us. Continue to tell the story, leave a written record, let the world know.Enjoy the festivities this weekend. And one more thing - save the date for our 2016 Juneteenth Celebration ... same time, same place! Thank "YOU" for making it happen!
Author : Grace Turner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683400364
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space written by Grace Turner and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides new insights into how enslaved and freed Africans in the New World navigated racialized landscapes while honoring the memories of their dead."--Laurie A. Wilkie, coauthor of Sampling Many Pots: An Archaeology of Memory and Tradition at a Bahamian Plantation "Turner's unique hybrid approach makes this book a valuable resource in the study of the African diaspora."--Rosalyn Howard, author of Black Seminoles in the Bahamas The Anglican Church established St. Matthew's Parish on the eastern side of Nassau to accommodate a population increase after British Loyalists migrated to the Bahamas in the 1780s. The parish had three separate cemeteries: the churchyard cemetery and Centre Burial Ground were for whites, but the Northern Burial Ground was officially consecrated for nonwhites in 1826 by the Bishop of Jamaica. In Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space, Grace Turner posits that the African-Bahamian community intentionally established this separate cemetery in order to observe non-European burial customs. Analyzing the landscape and artifacts found at the site, Turner shows how the community used this space to maintain a sense of social and cultural belonging despite the power of white planters and the colonial government. Although the Northern Burial Ground was covered by storm surges in the 1920s, and later a sidewalk was built through the site, Turner's fieldwork reveals a wealth of material culture. She points to the cemetery's location near water, trees planted at the heads of graves, personal items left with the dead, and remnants of food offerings as evidence of mortuary practices originating in West and Central Africa. According to Turner, these African-influenced ways of memorializing the dead illustrate W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of "double consciousness"--the experience of existing in two irreconcilable cultures at the same time. Comparing the burial ground with others in Great Britain and the American colonies, Turner demonstrates how Africans in the Atlantic diaspora did not always adopt European customs but often created a separate, parallel world for themselves. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Author : Clint Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349701164
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)
Download or read book How the Word Is Passed written by Clint Smith and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - which offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping a nation's collective history, and our own. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our most essential stories are hidden in plain view - whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth or entire neighbourhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women and children has been deeply imprinted. How the Word is Passed is a landmark book that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of the United States. Chosen as a book of the year by President Barack Obama, The Economist, Time, the New York Times and more, fans of Brit(ish) and Natives will be utterly captivated. What readers are saying about How the Word is Passed: 'How the Word Is Passed frees history, frees humanity to reckon honestly with the legacy of slavery. We need this book.' Ibram X. Kendi, Number One New York Times bestselling author 'An extraordinary contribution to the way we understand ourselves.' Julian Lucas, New York Times Book Review 'The detail and depth of the storytelling is vivid and visceral, making history present and real.' Hope Wabuke, NPR 'This isn't just a work of history, it's an intimate, active exploration of how we're still constructing and distorting our history." Ron Charles, The Washington Post 'In re-examining neighbourhoods, holidays and quotidian sites, Smith forces us to reconsider what we think we know about American history.' Time 'A history of slavery in this country unlike anything you've read before.' Entertainment Weekly 'A beautifully written, evocative, and timely meditation on the way slavery is commemorated in the United States.' Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Author : Dorothy Spruill Redford
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807848432
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)
Download or read book Somerset Homecoming written by Dorothy Spruill Redford and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.
