Annette Gordon-Reed - On Juneteenth

On
Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

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CONTENTS

This book grew out of a continuing conversation Ive had with my editor, Bob Weil, who has encouraged me over the years to write about Texas. Im deeply grateful for his support, and that of our friendand my agentFaith Childs. A number of my friends and colleagues offered helpful suggestions. My frequent collaborator Peters S. Onuf and my former New York Law School colleague David S. Schoenbrod graciously read the whole manuscript. Andres Resendez, James Goodman, Tiya Miles, Philip Deloria, Barry Bienstock, Andrew Torget, and Martha Minow read select chapters. I benefited enormously from their insights.

As always, I thank my husband, Robert R. Reed, for his enthusiasm and steadfast support. This book was written during the summer of 2020 when we Manhattanites were in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The best part of that harrowing period was getting to spend all of those days with him.

Preface

Olivia B. Waxman, Activists Are Pushing to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday. Heres the History Behind Their Fight, Time, June 17, 2020, https://time.com/5853800/juneteenth-national-holiday/.

Chapter one: This, Then, Is Texas

Big Thicket, http://houstonwilderness.org/big-thicket.

Andrew J. Torget, Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800 1850 (Chapel Hill, NC, 2015).

Chapter two: A Texas Town

Bishop Michael Rinehart, Lynchings in Conroe, https://tlgcconnections.wordpress.com/2019/04/27/lynchings-in-conroe/.

Nick Davies, The Deadly Secrets of a Small Town in Texas, The Guardian, February 2, 1991, https://www.nickdavies.net/1991/02/02/the-deadly-secrets-of-a-small-town-in-texas/.

Nick Davies, The Town That Loved Lynching, The Scotsman and the New Zealand Dominion, April 10, 1989.

Murder in the Courtroom, https://hauntedconroe.com/murder-in-the-courtroom/.

White v. Texas, 310 U.S. 530 (1940).

Chapter Three:
Origin Stories: Africans in Texas

Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, MA, 1998).

Ira Berlin, Generation of Captivity: A History of African - American Slaves (Cambridge, MA, 2004).

Andrs Resndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century (New York, 2007).

Donald Chipman, Estevanico, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/
estevanico.

Nicqel Terry Ellis, Forget What You Know About 1619, Historians Say, Slavery Began a Century Before Jamestown, https://www.staugustine.com/news/20191219/forget-what-you-know-about-1619-historians-say-slavery-began-half-century-before-jamestown-in-st-augustine.

Library of Congress, The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection, https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/articles-and-essays/introduction-to-the-wpa-slave-narratives/limitations-of-the-slave-narrative-collection/.

Chapter Four:
People of the Past and the Present

Pekka Hamalainen, The Comanche Empire (New Haven, CT, 2008).

Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Parker (Lubbock, TX, 2010).

Martha L. Finch, Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England (New York, 2009).

Stephen Harrigan, Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (Austin, 2019).

Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall, Journey to the West: The Alabama & Coushatta Indians (Norman, OK, 2008).

Alibates Flint Quarries and Ruins, https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/alibates/.

Chapter five: Remember the Alamo

William C. Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo (New York, 1998).

Stephan L. Hardin, Texian Illiad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution 1835 1836 (Austin, 1994).

Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 18211865 (Baton Rouge, LA, 1991).

Pete A. Y. Gunter, The Big Thicket: An Ecological Reevaluation (Denton, TX, 1993).

Jeffrey D. Dunn and James Lutzweiler, Yellow Rose of Texas, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/yellow-rose-of-texas.

Stephen Harrigan, Texas Primer: The Yellow Rose of Texas, Texas Monthly, April 1984,

https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texas-primer-the-yellow-rose-of-texas/.

Logan Hawkes, The Uncertain History of Emily West, http://texaslesstraveled.com/emilyessay.htm.

Amelia White, Who Was the Yellow Rose of Texas? Myths and Legends of the Texas Revolution, https://medium.com/@OfficialAlamo/who-was-the-yellow-rose-of-texas-750c95617241.

Chapter six: On Juneteenth

Gary Cartwright, Galveston: A History of the Island (New York, 1991).

Robert C. Conner, General Gordon Granger: The Savior of Chickamauga and the Man Behind Juneteenth (Philadelphia and Oxford, 2013).

Barry A. Crouch, The Freedmens Bureau and Black Texans (Austin, 1992).

Eric Foner, Reconstruction: Americas Unfinished Revolution (New York,
1998).

Karl Jacoby, The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Millionaire (New York, 2016).

David G. McComb, Galveston: A History (Austin, 1986).

Jack Healy, Black, and Bent on His Native American Rights, New York Times, September 8, 2020.

Teresa Palomo Acosta, Juneteenth, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/juneteenth.

Gregg Andrews, Black Working-Class Political Activism and Biracial Unionism: Galveston Longshoremen in Jim Crow Texas, 19191921, Journal of Southern History 74, no. 3 (August 2008): 627668.

Ed Cotham, Juneteenth: Four Myths and One Great Truth, Daily News (Galveston County), June 18, 2014.

Cecil Harper, Jr., Freedmans Bureau, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/freedmens-bureau.

Emancipation Park, https://www.houstontx.gov/parks/parksites/emancipationpark.html.

Merline Pitre, Cuney, Norris Wright (18461898), https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/cuney-norris-wright.

Merline Pitre, Ruby, George Thompson (18411882), https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ruby-george-thompson.

James V. Reese, The Early History of Labor Organizations in Texas, 18381876, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 72, no. 1 (July 1968): 120.

Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prizewinning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family and is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University.