Kris Manjapra: “Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days”

“Βetween the 1780s and 1930s, during the era of liberal empire and the rise of modern humanitarianism, over 80 emancipations from slavery occurred, from Pennsylvania in 1780 to Sierra Leone in 1936.  There were, in fact, 20 separate emancipations in the United States alone, from 1780 to 1865, across the U.S. North and South.”