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Juneteenth (June 19) commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Browse the resources below or check your Delaware Public Library shelves in the following areas: 394.263; 326, 973.714.

Juneteenth : A Celebration of Resilience
The National Museum of African American History and Culture invites you to engage in your history and discover ways to celebrate this holiday.
To Celebrate Juneteenth, Listen To A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation

Find it in the Catalog

Celebrate June 19th with these books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the abolition of slavery.

American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen
ISBN: 9780061995217

Publication Date: 2011-01-04
Beloved by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781400033416

Publication Date: 2004-06-08
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
ISBN: 9780525511489

Publication Date: 2020-04-07
Envisioning Emancipation by Deborah Willis; Barbara Krauthamer
ISBN: 9781439909850

Publication Date: 2012-12-05
Forever Free by Eric. Foner
ISBN: 9780375702747

Publication Date: 2006-11-14
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
ISBN: 9781416590316

Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Freedom National by James Oakes
ISBN: 9780393065312

Publication Date: 2012-12-10
Grace by Natashia Deon
ISBN: 9781619027206

Publication Date: 2016-06-14
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison; John F. Callahan (Editor)
ISBN: 9780394464572

Publication Date: 1999-05-29
Lincoln's Gamble by Todd Brewster
ISBN: 9781451693867

Publication Date: 2014-09-09
The Long Emancipation by Ira Berlin
ISBN: 9780674286085

Publication Date: 2015-09-15
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9780486284996

Publication Date: 1995-04-13
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
ISBN: 9781631498831

Publication Date: 2021-05-04
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
ISBN: 9780307269096

Publication Date: 2014-02-04
Red River by Lalita Tademy
ISBN: 9780446578981

Publication Date: 2007-01-03
Rooted by Brea Baker
ISBN: 9780593447376

Publication Date: 2024-06-18
She Came to Slay by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
ISBN: 9781982139599

Publication Date: 2019-11-05
The Slave's Cause by Manisha Sinha
ISBN: 9780300181371

Publication Date: 2016-02-23
A Slave No More by David W. Blight; Wallace Turnage (As told to); John Washington (As told to)
ISBN: 9780151012329

Publication Date: 2007-11-05
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates; Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9780525559535

Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington; Ishmael Reed (Introduction by); Robert J. Norrell (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9780451531476
The Wake of the Wind by J. California Cooper
ISBN: 9780385487054

Publication Date: 1999-12-28
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
ISBN: 9780679444329

Publication Date: 2010-09-07
We Are Each Other's Harvest by Natalie Baszile
ISBN: 9780062932563

Publication Date: 2021-04-06
Word by Word by Christopher Hager
ISBN: 9780674059863

Publication Date: 2013-02-11

Why All Americans Should Honor Juneteenth

An historian explains the history and significance of the holiday.

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