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Today, is Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery – the greatest triumph of freedom in American history. In this post, I compile some links to my writings relevant to the holiday and its significance. All are posts published here on the Volokh Conspiracy blog.<\/p>\n
“Juneteenth and the Universalist Principles of the American Revolution,<\/a>” June 19, 2021. This post explains how abolition was a fulfillment rather than a repudiation of the principles of the American Revolution, despite attempts of some on both right and left to claim otherwise.<\/p>\n “Reflections on Juneteenth<\/a>,” June 19, 2024. This post extends and elaborates on the points made in the 2021 post, and condemns the lame culture war over the holiday.<\/p>\n “Slavery, the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass’ ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'”<\/a>, July 4, 2020. Douglass’s famous speech sheds light on some of America’s greatest evils – but also on the great good done by the Revolution and Founding. This post – and Douglass’s speech – are not about Juneteenth, as such. But they are obviously relevant. Douglass rightly argued that the principles of the Revolution required the abolition of slavery – while also condemning the hypocrisy of the many white Americans who claimed otherwise.<\/p>\n “The Case Against the Case Against the American Revolution<\/a>,” July 4, 2019. A rebuttal to longstanding arguments – advanced by critics on both right and left – that the Revolution did more harm than good. The claim that the Revolution somehow set back abolition is a central argument of many of those critics. I explain why that argument is wrong.<\/p>\n The post Writings on Juneteenth, its Meaning, and its Significance for American Liberty<\/a> appeared first on Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compendium of links to my writings about the holiday celebrating the abolition of slavery. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3rdcitynews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}