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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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