{"product_id":"on-juneteenth-9781631498831","title":"On Juneteenth","description":"\u003cp\u003eInterweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts the origins of Juneteenth and explores the legacies of the holiday that remain with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest presence of black people in Texas--in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown--to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a \"frontier\" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos, and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the \"Alamo\" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, \u003ci\u003eOn Juneteenth\u003c\/i\u003e is stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon-Reed, Annette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781631498831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144","brand":"Annette Gordon-Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33061429411915,"sku":"9781631498831","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_dc4540f4-9e09-4f6e-87fd-a3384b9f34fe.jpg?v=1612952433","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/on-juneteenth-9781631498831","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}