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Juneteenth at Jamestown Settlement (Williamsburg)
June 19 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Join us at Jamestown Settlement for a thought-provoking history and performance exploring the precarious nature of freedom from 17th-century Jamestown to Juneteenth.
Although Juneteenth springs from events that happened in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, Juneteenth celebrates liberation from a system of slavery with origins in Jamestown, Virginia – as the place where the first recorded Africans in 1619 were brought after landing at Old Point Comfort and where the first slave laws enacted in the mid-17th century impacted the lives and status of Africans and their descendants.