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Three numbers and Juneteenth
This column was first published on Facebook by Barton Publications, Inc. stockholder Jeff Barton, regarding Juneteenth.
by Jeff Barton
Today’s numbers: 60%. 155. 2020.
That’s three-fifths – what the original Constitution established as the value of enslaved people (all black) relative to citizens (almost all white); 155 years since slavery was declared dead in Texas and the Confederacy; and today’s date, when many people are still taught that the Civil War had nothing to do ...