Question: What is Juneteenth, and what is the tradition behind the observance of the day?Īnswer: Juneteenth began in 1865 in Texas when some 250,000 formerly enslaved people were officially freed - two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Schermerhorn recently shared more about the history and significance of Juneteenth in this Q&A with ASU Now: Even the soldiers that proclaimed Black Texans free of slavery encouraged them to keep their shoulders to the plow, stay in their places and to accept peace over justice.” “Freedom was already and not yet complete since economic and civil rights were slow to follow. “Juneteenth celebrations were as much about the unfinished work of freedom as about the accomplished fact of slavery’s end,” Schermerhorn said. of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Growing in observances and recognition, Juneteenth is recognized as a state holiday or observance in 45 states North Dakota, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Montana and Hawaii do not recognize Juneteenth, according to the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. But it has been a slow journey to awareness - not unlike the protracted process of emancipation, said author and Professor Calvin Schermerhorn A historian of slavery, capitalism and African-American literature, Calvin Schermerhorn is the author of several books on related topics including the forthcoming “Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery,” due for publication in 2018.
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