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How have black Americans celebrated Christmas over the years? What was Christmas like for the enslaved on America’s plantations? What was the significance of eggnog? Which 19th-century tradition involved black people dressing up in costume, caroling, and harassing white people for alcohol and trinkets? How has Christmas been a tool of liberation and radical action? How did we get Black Santas? (Holidays, Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Harriet Tubman, Saturnalia, Rome, Christmas Rebellion, Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter, Kwanzaa, John Canoe, John Jonkonnu, Birmingham Church Bombing, Operation Breadbasket, Jesse Jackson, James Baldwin, Tis The Season)
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How have black Americans celebrated Christmas over the years? What was Christmas like for the enslaved on America’s plantations? What was the significance of eggnog? Which 19th-century tradition involved black people dressing up in costume, caroling, and harassing white people for alcohol and trinkets? How has Christmas been a tool of liberation and radical action? How did we get Black Santas? (Holidays, Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Harriet Tubman, Saturnalia, Rome, Christmas Rebellion, Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter, Kwanzaa, John Canoe, John Jonkonnu, Birmingham Church Bombing, Operation Breadbasket, Jesse Jackson, James Baldwin, Tis The Season)
Check out A Black People's History of Halloween here:
Love the content? Support for $1/month on patreon.com/intelexualmedia
Sources, essays, exclusive videos, a podcast, reading lists, and much more are available ON PATREON.
