Juneteenth is named after June 19, 1865, when news of their emancipation reached enslaved people in Texas. None of the pundits who are commenting on the holiday ask why enslaved people were in Texas in the first place.
General Antonio López de Santa Anna, who fought Texas enslavers at the Alamo in 1836, is depicted in settler school books as a villain. No. Santa Anna was opposed to slavery. He found the practice disgusting. The defenders of the Alamo, some of whom ran away, were pro-slavery. As Phillip Thomas Tucker writes in his book “Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003SNK25Y/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title__;!!Ivohdkk!y8kcmHdTTEXdBtvMDHRr54BnDyuOL5C0IQuW2QtDDFXdWsnIndHx6iA11wj6PNykfA%24>”: “Today we can no longer afford to ignore that the Alamo defenders were on the wrong side of the slavery issue, while the Mexicans were in the right.” Stephen Austin and other American settlers brought enslaved people to Texas, “flouting the slavery restrictions” set by the Mexicans, who ruled Texas at the time. Mexico outlawed slavery in 1829 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.history.com/news/underground-railroad-mexico-escaped-slaves__;!!Ivohdkk!y8kcmHdTTEXdBtvMDHRr54BnDyuOL5C0IQuW2QtDDFXdWsnIndHx6iA11wh67XT6tw%24>, and so, while the image of the fugitive slave is someone who escaped to the North and Canada, many fled to Mexico. One could say that the origins of what should be called the American-Mexican War, since Americans were the aggressors, happened as a result of Americans acquiring land in Texas and bringing enslaved people with them. https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/19/juneteenth-why-were-the-enslaved-in-texas/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30860): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30860 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106825038/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
