It's Historical Trivia Question Time. Make your submission.

[Sneederbunk]

Mine: Where in the US, immediately following the end of the Civil War, was slavery still legal? No Googling

[Sanity Claws]

1. West Virginia

Guess because Emancipation Proclamation applied only to states in rebellion, IIRC

[Sneederbunk]

4. No

[EYESORE 9001]

2. I looked up the answer to your question, so I won't post it

but the comments following some of those articles tells me that white supremacists have way too much time on their hands.

[Sneederbunk]

9. Just learned the answer from a book I am reading.

And it is not a white supremicist book.

[EYESORE 9001]

51. Wasn't implying anything of the sort

I landed on a blog with several slavery-related topics and the comments were from white supremacists.

[GP6971]

3. Kentucky. n/t

[Sneederbunk]

5. No

[dweller]

6. Texas

✌🏻

[Sneederbunk]

22. Nix

[applegrove]

7. Texas

[FakeNoose]

8. Are we including US territories, or is it states only?

[Sneederbunk]

12. What is now continental US.

[unc70]

10. Various northern states

NJ, for example. Slavery was still legal until the ratifications of the 13th and 14th amendments -- Dec 1865 and July 1868. The Emancipation Proclamation affected only the states in rebellion, those that had joined the confederacy.

[Sneederbunk]

14. Nyet.

[claudette]

11. Was it

Texas?

[Sneederbunk]

15. No

[claudette]

18. Then why

is Juneteenth celebrated?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

[Sneederbunk]

28. Juneteenth was when Texas slaves were told of emancipation.

It was not the date of emancipation.

[claudette]

38. According to

the info at that link it doesn’t say that.

June" and "nineteenth", as it is celebrated on the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when in the wake of the American Civil War, Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas

[sdfernando]

13. I'll take a stab.

How about Washington D.C., since it is not a state??

[Sneederbunk]

16. Sorry.

[Glorfindel]

17. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?

"Border" states where slavery was legal, but didn't secede from the union.

[Sneederbunk]

19. No

[Scrivener7]

20. Wow. I looked it up so I won't say. Surprising.

[FakeNoose]

21. My guess: Missouri

Missouri didn't join the Confederacy, even though it was a borderline state. And it was one of the last slave states to be admitted to the Union, despite the fact that only a few counties that actually had slavery. (I think it was because of tobacco crops.)

I was actually born in Saint Louis, MO and when to grade school there, so I did learn some history. Apparently I haven't forgotten all of it yet.

[Sneederbunk]

23. No

[Sucha NastyWoman]

24. Galveston, Texas?

Or was it illegal, just that black people didn’t know that?

[Sneederbunk]

25. No

[bottomofthehill]

26. TX and DE

I think Texas and Delaware both has slavery after the civil was. There is an Underground Railroad tour in MD and DE that talked about slavery after the Civil War. It was pretty well documented on the tour. And TX because of the Juneteen celebration.

[Historic NY]

27. The same state that still has an antebellum style government

where whites are superior to the black folks. The same one that dead last in the state rankings. the Gov is Tator its not hasrd to figure it out

[Sneederbunk]

29. No

[debm55]

34. Florida

[Elessar Zappa]

30. In prisons?

[Sneederbunk]

31. No

[debm55]

32. Alabama

[Sneederbunk]

33. No

[debm55]

35. Loiusiana

[Sneederbunk]

37. No

[debm55]

39. Florida

[Sneederbunk]

40. No

[debm55]

41. Maryland

[Sneederbunk]

42. No

[Sneederbunk]

43. You can keep guessing or I will give answer if someone asks for it.

[GP6971]

44. I'd like to know the answer. n/t

[Sneederbunk]

47. Answer: Indian reservations.

Yes, some Native-Americans owned black slaves. It was a factor in some tribes supporting and fighting for the Confederacy. Banning slavery on the reservations was not finalized by treaty until 1866. Interestingly, some former slaves (Buffalo Soldiers) participated in the genocide of Native-Americans. History is not for sissies.

[GP6971]

49. Thanks! n/t

[sdfernando]

50. I was just about to post my 2nd guess

as Indian Reservations.

[WhiteTara]

54. Holy Camolie!

I did not know that Native Americans had black slaves. Thanks for another fact not taught in American History.

[wnylib]

56. Before Columbus, several tribes had slavery, but it was

usually a temporary condition of servitude brought about in various ways. In some cultures, a person who was destitute would offer servitude in return for support, but eventually earned freedom again. In some cases it was the servitude of captives taken in war until they became acclimated to the language and customs of the new tribe as a tribal member. Then they were accepted as full members.

It was Christian missionaries who introduced race-based, permanent enslavement of Africans as a buy and sell trade. Some tribal members among the Cherokee opposed that slave practice. Before their removal to the West, the Cherokee people wrote a constitution for themselves. They agreed that slavery was wrong, but wealthy, land-owning Cherokee families continued to have slaves. Cherokee slaves were able to intermarry into the tribe and to even hold some offices in tribal government. If they gained their freedom and chose to stay with the tribe, they had full tribal membership. But any form of slavery is still a lack of complete freedom.

I don't remember their names now, but I read that some of the Cherokee tribal leaders said that they believed that their removal and loss of lands was a punishment by their spirit ancestors or the Creator for having allowed slavery. At the time of removal, White society gave Black slaves of the Cherokee an option to stay behind or go with the tribe. Most chose to go with the tribe since their only options were enslavement to Whites or enslavement to the Cherokee. Some chose to stay behind because they had family with White slave owners.

There are many African American of mixed ancestry with Native Americans. Some are due to enslavement among Native tribes like the Cherokee. But some mixed ancestry is due to escaped slaves going to live in tribes where they were adopted as members. That's especially true of the Seminole in Florida.

There were also many Native Americans enslaved by White colonists. In colonies and later, states, Native people captured in war were sold into slavery, often to the Caribbean sugar plantations. In the southern coastal colonies, White slave traders stirred up wars between tribes in order to gain captives to sell locally or to the Caribbean. That was why the Tuscarora tribe in the Carolinas moved north to join the Iroquois League. They were being forced into slavery wars. Tuscarora culture and language are Iroquoian so the League accepted them as their 6th tribal member.

[yellowdogintexas]

55. I should have known this one. Mr YD is descended on his

mother's side from Chief Joe Vann, a very wealthy landowner Cherokee in the NE Alabama/NW Georgia area. His ancestral home is near Dalton Ga and has been restored; is now a state monument.

Chief Joe Vann definitely owned slaves; well documented in state records and family lore.

There is no doubt in my mind that there were other land owning Indian tribes with slaves.

lots of good stuff if you search Google. https://gastateparks.org/ChiefVannHouse By the way, the home is in Marjorie Three Toes district

[debm55]

45. Mississippi?

[Wounded Bear]

46. Delaware...nt

[usonian]

48. Everywhere.

Without looking anything up, nor the answers above.

Slavery is legal in prisons.

Otta be changed.

Am I right or am I right .... uh, wrong?

[WhiteTara]

52. okay okay Tell me!

[Sneederbunk]

53. See 47. above