There are no slaves currently living, or have been for at least 70 years or so.



In a message dated 01/23/07 16:04:34 Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
Once upon a time the Church stuck the birth of Jesus onto the Roman   
holiday of Saturnalia, that was pretty made up, too. I don't know   
about Kwanzaa, but if freed slaves in various areas of the south   
wanted to celebrate their freedom on whatever day suited them, I'd   
say that's up to them to decide. 

Nancy 

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On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Yojsouth wrote: 

> Just another made up PC holiday like Kwanza. 
> 
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> In a message dated 01/23/07 15:27:50 Eastern Standard Time,   
> [log in to unmask] writes: 
> Here's some info. and an image on Richmond's celebration: 
> 
> http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/freedom.html 
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> Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe wrote: 
>> I see in today's New York Times that Delegate Frank D. Hargrove   
>> (R-??) now suggests that Virginia officially celebrate   
>> "Juneteenth" (June 19, 1865).  I have a couple of other   
>> suggestions since Juneteenth was originally a Texas emancipation   
>> celebration. 
>> 
>> In Virginia, many urban emancipation celebrations took place on   
>> January 1, I suspect because that was the date when the final   
>> Emancipation Proclamation took effect.  In the rural Southside,   
>> firmly documented in Boydton, Mecklenburg County, the annual   
>> celebration of emancipation from 1866 until right around WW II was   
>> April 9.  April 9 presumably celebrated the surrender of the Army   
>> of Northern Virginia to the various Union armies involved in the   
>> complex assault on Richmond usually called the Siege of Petersburg. 
>> 
>> Harold S. Forsythe 
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