[FlingWingFlyer]

Do these stupid retards have any proof that the white residents of Boston still own slaves? Slavery ended “Juneteenth” 1866. Joe Pedo even created a “Don’t have To Work” day to celebrate another day off. He’ll probably decide to turn the entire south into a National Park to show Americans that was where the slaves used to work making underwear for white people.

[Verginius Rufus]

Juneteenth was just the day the slaves in the Galveston area learned that slavery was finished because the war had ended (1865 not 1866). Slavery officially ended everywhere in the US in December 1865 with the adoption of the 13th amendment.

Massachusetts was one of the first states in the Union to abolish slavery. A large part of its white population is descended from immigrants (Irish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.) who came to America long after Massachusetts had abolished slavery--or even after the US as a whole had ended slavery.

Even in the South the large plantation owners were a tiny fraction of the white population. Whites whose families have been here since colonial times might have an ancestor or two way back who owned one or more slaves, but none of their current wealth comes from those remote ancestors.

[Tell It Right]

Massachusetts had 0 slaves as far back as 1790 because the Massachusetts court said that slavery violated the principles of the U.S. Constitution.