Jubilee! Records of Emancipation at the National Archives and Records Administration by Damani Davis
● Damani is a reference archivist at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and a Subject Matter Expert for Records Relating to the African American Experience
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On June 19, 1865, U.S. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. This day has come to be known as Juneteenth, a combination of June and 19th. It is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. This presentation features emancipation-related records housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC. Although the bulk of these records—other than General Order No. 3—are not directly associated with the tradition of Juneteenth itself, the featured records highlight the general theme of emancipation that ultimately culminated in General Order No. 3 and the Juneteenth tradition. The records highlighted in this presentation are significant due to their genealogical value as well as for general historical information related to the history of emancipation in the United States.
00:00 - Welcome
01:08 - Session overview and presenter biography
03:27 - Introduction to Jubilee!
03:39 - Primary Acts, Proclamations, and Orders
05:03 - Benjamin Franklin Transmittal of Anti-Slavery Petition, 1790
07:00 - Petition from the Pennsylvania Society Promoting the Abolition of Slavery - Full text
09:27 - An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves - 1807
12:17 - Coastwise Slave Manifests
12:52 - Washington, DC as center for Domestic Slave trade
14:16 - Citizens of the State of Pennsylvania Anti-slavery petition - full text
18:31 - Petition from the citizens of Portland, Maine - full text
20:02 - Petition from the citizens of the State of Delaware
20:58 - Petition from the citizens of the State of Delaware - full text
21:47 - About petitions prior to the 1830s, Select Committee of the 14th Congress
24:08 - Deposition of Francis Scott Key - observations of DC slave trade - full text
29:34 - Deposition of Philadelphia Physician and Abolitionist Jesse Torrey to the Select Cmte
30:41 - Jesse Torrey's Deposition - Full text
31:14 - The story of slave Anna Williams
37:49 - Select Committee upon Slavery in the District of Columbia - 1836
38:44 - Select Committee upon Slavery in the District of Columbia - full text
41:09 - Records relating to Slavery in the District of Columbia
41:37 - DC Emancipation Act - April 1862
46:05 - Supplemental Act of July 1862
46:47 - M520, Records of the Board of Commissioners (DC Emancipation) 1862-1863
47:54 - Slave laborer Philip Reid and Clark Mills petitioner for slave labor
51:46 - M520 Records of the Board of Commissioners, example from Supplemental Act
54:54 - Slave Philip Meredith and General Robert Lee
56:36 - The Emancipation Proclamation
57:27 - The Emancipation Proclamation -Text
1:00:05 - General Order 3
1:02:19 - Thank you
1:02:31 - Closing, Event Survey, Other Resources
1:03:15 - Questions and answers in the chat
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