Letter writers discuss the Juneteenth holiday, origins of ‘due process’ and President Donald Trump’s spending bill.

They include letters from Vice President Andrew Johnson ... Lincoln laid out the estimated cost to the nation's coffers of his "emancipation with compensation" proposal. Paying slaveholders ...

According to a March 21 article on Axios, Congressman Jim Clyburn of the Sixth District of South Carolina said, "Yeah, I don't accept the notion that Juneteenth is the day that Blacks were freed ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and ...

I support a state holiday to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved Americans ... Recently, The Capital has published letters that touch on the politics and merits of past and proposed ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment ... who specializes in African-American nationalism. Here is the full text of General Order No. 3. “The people of Texas are informed that ...

Every August 1 Emancipation Day we honour the freeing of our African ancestors from the bondage of enslavement. On August 1, 1990, however, Emancipation Day took on additional meaning when a large ...

With slave heads mounted on sticks, bodies hanging from trees and death from labor exhaustion, Will Smith's "Emancipation" accurately depicts the violence used to maintain racial hierarchy in ...