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- Title
Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration by Edward T. Cotham Jr. (review).
- Authors
Bean, Christopher B.
- Abstract
By far, the two most informative and strongest chapters are 18, about General Gordon Granger, the drafter of General Order No. 3, the official Juneteenth order, and 19, called "Just like that we were free", which chronicles the varied ways formerly enslaved people received the news of their emancipation. Cotham additionally notes how the man most associated with Juneteenth behaved with Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Sheridan in ways that both "helped and hindered their interactions with each other" (168). Cotham attempts to weave these subjects toward emancipation within the narrative, but at times he strays toward a general treatment of the politics and diplomacy of the Civil War era rather than keeping his focus on Juneteenth.
- Subjects
JUNETEENTH; BLACK Lives Matter movement
- Publication
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2022, Vol 125, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0038-478X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/swh.2022.0046