What was the last state to free slaves in the USA?
Correct answer: Mississippi
Player #4874449
there is a difference between ratification of a law and de facto recognition of it. Enslaved blacks in Texas were the last to be notified about Emancipation by the Union's army. Blacks in Mississippi knew they were free as evidenced by their gains politically during Reconstruction , and Mississippi's response was monstrous. Not only were Blacks stripped of their voting rights and other gains they had made, they were subjected to violence and intimidation by Mississippi whites that would be seen as crimes against humanity today. Texas is the reason for "Juneteenth " celebrations by all Blacks.
Vee
WTF! Blacks were walking around freely but in actuality they weren't legally free. Now, this is a real little known Black history fact!
Player Ejag
Thank you player #487449 for illuminating this important history for all. Should be taught in ALL schools but isn’t.
Player SQinfoNUTS
this freaks me out. 1995.!!?
SunGodEyeRa
Nirvana girl Jade!, most Irish were indentured servants. they could typically work until a debt was paid and then be free. blacks had no debt until slavery was abolished. then many of the free ex slaves had to still work the plantations until they could earn enough to truly be free. many never did.
Laurie
That blew my mind, Mississippi hang your head. "All men are created equal"...
SQinfoNUTS
Vee, Human history shame.
Clown Boss
then for whatever reason Mississippi didn't notify the US archivist as required by law so the 1995 ratification wasn't made official until two interested citizens solved the issue in 2013. -- Ben Waldron, ABC News
Shautay K.
Mississippi was the LAST state to have segregated proms so GO FIGURE
Remey
Player #4874449, I live in Galveston where the came to by water to notify the slaves they had been free for about 1 1/2 years
Lionessa
Valencia, Whose truth do you mean?
Lionessa
gman, England took slaves to Europe and the Middle East before they brought them to America. Some European countries "reversed" slavery long before the US did. Denmark, for one, ended slavery sixty years before America did.
Valencia
I always wonder about the people who tap the down arrow on a comment of truth. They surely are the reasons this country (United States) is in the trouble we are in. Sadly, they don’t recognize it.
BamaBell
Player #4874449, Thank you because I got it wrong I was raised knowing about Juneteenth. I never knew Mississippi had that going on but to be honest Mississippi is probably the worst state for Black's look at 2024 Jackson and their Jim Crow laws
Elliep417
Clown Boss, not notifying those responsible for achieving official government paperwork...WHY does that sound SO familiar and much more recent than 1995?!?!
Sebby
Player #4874449, thank you!
Lionessa
Player #48865757, What is up with "changing the language?" Changing the name of something does not change the fundamental nature of the thing.
gG
Shautay K., they have segregated water and education.
gG
Player #4874449, you are correct. Mississippi still has problems with the freedom for their black citizens.
Trisha
Player #4874449, thank you for your clarification
LightningFast
Player #4874449, yeah I picked Texas and it was counted as wrong :/
OnlyMe
Mathias IV, Being a Mississippian, I know it wasn't until 2013. The government thought it was signed in 1995.
Organic Dude
Thank you, Nina Simone! She sang a great song, “Mississippi G&d D#mn”
wesley
SQinfoNUTS, human history is replete with inhumanity going back 10,000 years.
MissK
I'm thinking it was Texas, otherwise what's the point of Junteenth?
Dark Helmet 2
From 1870's-1920's the convict leasing system was used that developed into the chain gangs that falsely imprisoned mostly black males and females to serve in the mines, turpentine forest, building railroads or working the farms (plantations). Usually people were taken for vagrancy, riding the train or having a weapon to defend themselves.
1 white man served time involving keeping others in servitude (peonage) from 1877- 1966 and he was found guilty of murder for 1 man not 12 that he had
Player #38618593
Had to be Mississippi. I could never live in the South.
noyam
I thought it was Texas, they had a rider that didn't "get the news out" until two weeks after it passed...?
momov6boys
Laurie, history is history...can't change it now, can only learn from it.
joe
I`m sad to say even in these times and days we still have slavery in the U.S.A. ,and other countries ,the type of slavery i`m talking about ensnared every race, nationality ,gender ,etc. It's economic slavery , financial slavery , etc. I was born and raised in the south and hate any kind of slavery , hate it as much as he'll itself .I pray everyone everywhere can be free of any type of slavery
RICK-N-BACHER
Laurie, Mississippi has a state motto "Thank God for Arkansas "
TJ SISTA
Hmmmm... I thought it would be TX. Very good to get the skinny on this one though.
Player #50794115
Player #4874449, Juneteeth is why I thought the answer was Texas
Player #48865757
The *enslaved* were freed. Let’s change the language from slaves to the enslaved.
Thunderduck
Player #4874449, Indeed, the slaves in Galveston were not "freed" until the 1870's I believe...
Player #43162005
SQinfoNUTS, true, but not unique to U.S. as so many young people are being taught..many races- including blacks in this country owned many different races of slaves..Not right, but we have changed and gotten better, lest we forget....
Player #26129643
Bad question: too clever by half. Slaves in MS knew they were free and TX is where Juneteenth originated, traditionally seen as the time the last slaves (in TX in 1865?) found out they were free.
Lynda
hit by mistake
gman
Another fact every race were slaves at some point in time.Blacks were slaves of other blacks whites were slaves of other whites. only America was first in reversing this way of the world but only after tremendous loss of life in the civil war.It only seems to me that most people think America was the only country with slavery.
Player Millathakilla
SunGodEyeRa, also, the children of slaves were property and could be sold. indentured servants' babies were not for sale.