We Should Celebrate Emancipation, Just Not on June 19th — Minding The Campus

We Should Celebrate Emancipation, Just Not on June 19th — Minding The Campus

Two of my great-great-grandfathers left Maine in the “fight to make men free”—one came back without his foot, and the other died in “Hospital, Washington;” we don’t even know where he was buried. Ending the horrible evil of slavery should be celebrated, but June 19, 1865, is neither the day it ended nor one significant […] The post We Should Celebrate Emancipation, Just Not on June 19th appeared first on Minding The Campus.