(What happens on Juneteenth? It's June the 19th that it falls on, isn't it?)
I can't see anything about Juneteenth on that page, BBB... :S
Drom
Drom - opps! - see correction.
BBB
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Chekov's road to communication
Drom
dròm_et_rêve wrote:Thanks, BBB; that's an interesting site 
, and an interesting holiday to boot. Have you ever taken part in a Juneteenth celebration?
Yes, many times with friends when I lived in California.
BBB
I wish that England had something to reflect our agreement to pull out from the slave trade and abolish slavery. All we have, BBB, are colourless Bank Holidays, on which nothing is celebrated: it's just a Monday off. They bear no relation to our two thousand plus years' of history. Contrast this with St. George's Day, St. Patrick's, or even the myriad things that could and should be commemorated, like the end of World War II, on which no day is granted. There is no holiday for our Patron Day, unlike nearly everywhere else in the world, because it apparently offends multiculturalism. Multiculturalism is about many cultures living harmoniously, coming to gether to build a rich tapestry; not about being generic.
Drom
Drom, I found a couple of Brittish citizens who tried to stop the slave trade, but note that no holidays resulted from their efforts. ---BBB
Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton and William Wilberforce.
Steve Chalke recalls the life of William Wilberforce, a man of profound conviction who fought against the prevailing orthodoxy of his time... ..
Late on the evening of 26th July 1833 the elderly Wilberforce was brought the long awaited news that the bill to abolish slavery had finally passed its third reading in the House of Commons. As its passage through the House of Lords was not in doubt, to all intents, the emancipation of slaves was at last a reality. Three days later, at the age of 74, "Wilber", as he was known by family and friends, the champion of slaves, was dead.
"God Almighty has set before me two great objects," wrote Wilberforce, some 46 years earlier in his diary for 28th October 1787, "the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners." His goal was much wider than ending slavery and he engaged in issues as diverse as penal reform.
Wilberforce was a great man. I campaigned for a statue of his to be put up next to the one of the late, great Robert Peel up in Tamworth. England's history of that era would have been very bleak without those two men..
'Camelot continued: what would have happened had Kennedy lived?'
A wonderful essay in a book called 'Virtual History.'
BBB
Camelot: a used camel for sale lot?
