What Was Christmas Like for America’s Enslaved People?
How did Black-Americans (I added Black because IT IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ALREADY BEEN TYPED THAT WAY BECAUSE WE ARE WHO HE IS TYPING/WRITING ABOUT AND SO WE'RE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED DIRECTLY AND NOT TYPED/WRITTEN AROUND) living under slavery experience the Christmas holidays? While early accounts from white Southerners after the Civil War often painted an idealized picture of owners’ generosity met by grateful workers happily feasting, singing and dancing, the reality was far more complex. (Far more complex? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! No. It IS NOT FAR MORE COMPLEX. White-slavers COULD PLAY GOD AND DID SO ACCORDINGLY. If they WANTED TO BE generous TO MAKE THEMSELVES FEEL BETTER, they could. If they wanted to be ASSHOLES, they were. NOTHING COMPLEX HERE.)
In the 1830s, the large slaveholding states of Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas became the first in the United States to declare Christmas a state holiday. It was in these Southern states and others during the antebellum period (1812-1861) that many Christmas traditions—giving gifts, singing carols, decorating homes—firmly took hold in American culture. Many enslaved Black-Americans (Note he put the word "workers". WHEN BEING A SLAVE AUTO-INCLUDES WORKING. You DON'T HAVE ANY SAY IN THE MATTER ASSHOLE. I also ADDED Black AGAIN, and kept ON-TARGET ON-TOPIC WHICH IS BLACK-ENSLAVEMENT BY WHITES. No go arounds, no nice wording, no word-trickerations) got their longest break of the year—typically a handful of days—and some were granted the privilege to travel to see family or get married. (Keep that part in mind. WHITES GRANTED MARRIAGE & THE ABILITY TO TRAVEL, thus PROVING WHAT I CORRECTED EARLIER IN THIS SHITSHOW. There IS NOTHING COMPLEX HERE. It's STANDARD ABUSIVE-BEHAVIOR OF PLAYING GOD. Note that modern-day Black-marriages & families are fucked up. And it is because the Point of Origin COMES FROM THIS TIME-PERIOD. And Black-American Customs, Culture, and Code of Conduct DOES NOT HIGHLIGHT THIS & THEN BUILD ON THE CREATION OF BLACK-AMERICAN DATING-MARRIAGE METHODS THAT WILL NOT ALLOW FOR NOR TOLERATE BULLSHIT-STUPIDITY WITHIN THESE CRITICAL-AREAS OF OUR RACE WITHIN THIS PLACE.) Many received gifts from their owners and enjoyed special foods untasted the rest of the year. (DEPRIVATION. Again you SEE THE INTENTIONAL-PATTERN, mind you? How many Black-slaves HAD TO LEARN HOW TO DO THINGS THAT WERE ONLY TO BE ENJOYED OR FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF THEIR WHITE-ENSLAVERS? Here We see why present-day Blacks ARE OBSESSED WITH THE WRONG MATERIAL-GOODS & ITEMS, where I need to remind You that this willful deprivation by Whites towards Blacks has gone on FOR CENTURIES. Not a few days. Not a few weeks, months, years or decades, CENTURIES. This is why Black-Isolationism SHOULD BE A VERY REAL THING FOR US. Because WE HAVE CENTURIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TORTURE-TRAUMA & ABUSE TO UNPACK & PUT IN THEIR PROPER PLACES. But instead We have Fools CONSTANTLY PUSHING US TO STAY UP UNDERNEATH WHITES OR WHOMEVER ELSE WHILE WE ARE A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHITSHOW!)
But while many enslaved people (This fuckin guy. While many enslaved people COULD FUCKIN MEAN ANY FUCKIN BODY!!!!! But he has made it clear HE IS TALKING ABOUT BLACK-AMERICANS, yet HIS FUNKY COWARDLY CONNIVING ASS KEEPS MAKING SURE TO STRIP AWAY THE IDENTITY OF WHO HE IS TALKING ABOUT BY LITERALLY NOT IDENTIFYING US. So LEMME CORRECT HIM AGAIN)
But while MANY ENSLAVED BLACK-AMERICANS partook in some of these holiday pleasures, (Again the Deprivation and then ONE-TIME EXPOSURES CREATE ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGICAL-BEHAVIORS OR AT LEAST LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THEM. Because now AS A WHITE-ENSLAVER YOU HAVE A TOKEN THAT YOU CAN USE TO GET ENSLAVED-BLACKS TO SELL OUT OTHER ENSLAVED-BLACKS, and I'm sure you realized THIS, right. This is why the Voices of New Black Media keep highlighting that Black-slaves would LITERALLY SELLOUT FOR BUTTERED-BISCUITS. Let THAT SHIT SINK IN. And then REMEMBER WHAT BLACK-AMERICANS HAD TO EAT DURING THIS TIME. -_- I hate pig's-feet. I had hog-mauls or maws OR WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT SHIT IS!)
Christmas time could be treacherous (YA THINK!? >_< SHIT IS STILL TREACHEROUS NOW ASSHOLE!!!!!).
According to Robert E. May, a professor of history at Purdue University and author of Yuletide in Dixie: Slavery, Christmas and Southern Memory, owners’ fears of rebellion during the season sometimes led to pre-emptive shows of harsh discipline. Their buying and selling of workers didn’t abate during the holidays. Nor did their annual hiring out of enslaved workers, some of whom would be shipped off, away from their families, on New Year’s Day—widely referred to as “heartbreak day.” (So THERE YA GO! There you go. White-Americans!? IT'S NEW YEAR'S DAY, YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!! Black-Americans!? My Wife just got fuckin sold to yet another rapist, yay. BUT SALUTE THE FUCKIN FLAG! Where fuckin NAZI-POW'S GOT BETTER TREATMENT THAN BLACK-AMERICAN WWII-SOLDIERS!)
Still, Christmas afforded enslaved people an annual window of opportunity to challenge the subjugation that shaped their daily lives. Resistance came in many ways—from their assertion of power to give gifts to expressions of religious and cultural independence to using the relative looseness of holiday celebrations and time off to plot escapes. (So much to unpack in this paragraph. But I'll sum it up with look at how it's DOWNPLAYED. Hey, I gave you a gift. Behold My Power. -_- Oh---ohkay, I guess. And I type that BECAUSE HE DOESN'T TYPE "They gave gifts of FOOD to one another so they wouldn't have to find yet another way to make a pig taste better. NO EXAMPLES. Just, look at that, they even PLOTTED THEIR ESCAPES. Translation, let's NOT LINGER HERE TOO LONG. Shit was FUCKED UP. You know it, I know it, LET'S SPEED THIS SHIT UP! BECAUSE LIFE WAS HOPELESS AS FUCK! And I won't type about HOW ENSLAVED-BLACKS BUILT UP THEIR HOPES THROUGH PLOTTING TO MURDER THE SHIT OUT OF THE WHITES WHO'D ENSLAVED THEM! Nope. WON'T BE TYPING THAT RIGHTFULLY REASONABLE SHIT! Because WE DON'T WANT ANY BLACK-AMERICANS TO REALIZE THAT EVERYTHING HAS ALWAYS COME DOWN TO VIOLENCE WITH WHITES! So let's just SPEED THIS SHIT UP AND MOVE ON!)
‘Christmas Gift!’
Enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN people rarely made reciprocal gifts to their WHITE-ENSLAVER owners, according to historians Shauna Bigham and Robert E. May: “Fleeting displays of economic equality would have controverted the [enslaved Black-Americans workers] prescribed role of childlike dependency.” (Vote Demonrat, I MEAN DEMOCRAT! Or YOU AIN'T BLACK! Get off the Demonrat-Plantation cuz the Repress-Again Party IS FOR YOU! I mean Republican-Party! OH THE CHOICES!? OH THE EXCITEMENT! OH WHUT THE FUCK ARE THOSE BLACKS DOING OVER THERE!?!?! HOW DARE THEY MAKE THEIR OWN FUCKIN POLITICAL-PARTY! THROW THE FLAG! THROW THE GODDAMN FLAG! Personal Foul. Roughing the Dependency-Plans for Black-Americans by actually doing what's in Black-American Interest. 15-year penalty. Assassinations, murders and mutings of Black-Americans who encourage and do this are now on the clock. Replay Jim Crow. FIRST DOWN!) Even when they played a common holiday game with their owners—where the first person who could surprise the other by saying “Christmas Gift!” received a present—they were not expected to give gifts when they lost. (We were treated like abused pets. And I finally decided to type that. Literally raping and murdering and whipping and psychologically abusing Black-Americans while 'playing Christmas-gift games'. -_- Some sick shit right there. Great job White-Americans. Great job, give yourselves a round of applause and pat on the back. And great job ON OUR PART for continuing to play along with this sick shit. Great job My People, awesome work of allowing and enabling this continued crazed abusive relationship We have with Whites. Great job.)
In some instances, enslaved BLACK-AMERICANS people did reciprocate with gifts to their WHITE-AMERICAN masters when they lost in "the game". (Even reading that shit just gives Me a horrible image of all kinds of sick-shit that really doesn't end well for the Black-Americans forced and even willing to play this fuckin "game". Again? Ask why is it that Black-Americans are either too kowtowing with Whites or violent-on-site, ask that question again with generations of this bullshit going on well after slavery. Where the Whites CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THEY OWN-&-CONTROL EVERYTHING. While We're left with ashes from Our Successes getting destroyed BY WHITES. ON PURPOSE. TO KEEP THE HISTORICAL POWER-DYNAMIC GOING. How's that whole Joe Biden/Kamala Harris thing working out by the way!? Fuckin idiots).
On one plantation in the Low Country South Carolina, some enslaved Black-American house workers (House-Niggas, this is ACTUALLY WHERE THAT WORD-TERM COMES FROM. Further proof OF HOW USELESS THE WORDS NIGGA AND NIGGER ARE) gave their WHITE-AMERICAN owners eggs wrapped in handkerchiefs. Yet overall, the one-sided nature of "gift-giving" (Gift-giving? Is this a fuckin joke? No. What it is, is what We see today. The Whites KNOW THEY HAVE EVERYTHING. And that THEY INTENTIONALLY KEEP IT THAT WAY. But back then THEY COULD BE HONEST ABOUT NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING FROM BLACKS. Ready for this, are you ready, BECAUSE BLACK-AMERICANS WERE STILL FUCKIN SLAVES AND PROPERTY, TA-DAH!!!!!! Fast-forward to today!? White-Americans ARE DISHONEST BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PRETEND TO SEE US AS EQUALS AND CITIZENS. So IN YESTERYEARS? THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO FUCKIN PRETEND. So THEY FELT SECURE, note the word FELT. THEIR FEELINGS. This is why I POSTED THE FACT EARLIER that when Blacks "were allegedly freed" THEY SIMPLY LEFT. Read it again Sam, THEY SIMPLY. LEFT. They didn't GRAB WEAPONS AND KILL ALL THE WHITES WHO'D TORTURED THEIR FAMILY-LINE AND DID GOD KNOWS WHAT, no. THEY LEFT. They FUCKIN. LEFT. Why!? Because THE FACTS OF THE MATTER WAS THEY HAD ALL THE SKILLS TO FINALLY BUILD FOR THEMSELVES, that's why, AND UHHHHHHHHH? Whut? WHAT EXACTLY DID WHITES DO NEXT? Huh? FUCK DID YOU DO? Oh well WE CAN'T GIVE THEM LAND, they'll, OH GOD. THEY FUCKIN ALREADY HAVE SKILLS AND TRADES WHERE!? No. No Land. NO MONEY. No FUCKIN PLACE TO FUCKIN GO! The so-called UNION, White-Northerners, DITCHED US! So it was RIGHT BACK TO THE FUCKIN PLANTATIONS WE JUST FUCKIN WALKED OFF OF. THERE'S YOUR FUCKIN LIBERATION RIGHT THERE FOLKS!!!!! CONGRATS! YOU JUST PULLED A FUCKIN GRANDPA-SIMPSON WALK INTO THE BAR AND RIGHT BACK OUTTA THE BAR!!!!! SALUTE THE FUCKIN FLAG! HEIL!)
Yet overall, the one-sided nature of gift-giving between WHITE-AMERICAN slaveowners and those they enslaved reinforced the dynamic of White Power and paternalism (Again with this bullshit attempt to ABSOLVE WHITEWOMEN. CUT IT THE FUCK OUT!).
Christmas Vacation and Freedom
For BLACK-AMERICANS enslaved workers, Christmastime represented a break between the end of harvest season and the start of preparation for the next year of production—a brief sliver of freedom in lives marked by heavy labor and bondage (WAIT I THOUGHT BLACK-AMERICANS WERE LAZY! EVEN DURING SLAVERY! And I needed to type that absurdity because that was LITERALLY WHAT WHITES WERE SAYING DURING THAT TIME. AS WELL AS SAYING THAT SLAVERY REALLY BROUGHT OUT BLACK-AMERICAN GENIUS AND INGENUITY! I posted about THAT SHIT on another post that ties DIRECTLY TO THE SMITHSONIAN'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN SECTION. Where White-American Slave-owners PRAISED MY PEOPLE FOR, you know, INVENTING SHIT TO MAKE THEM FUCKIN RICH, WHO-RAY! Yay. Yeah. Whatever). “This time we regarded as our own, by the grace of our masters; and we therefore used or abused it nearly as we pleased,” wrote famed writer, orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery at age 20. “Those of us who had families at a distance were generally allowed to spend the whole six days [between Christmas and New Year’s Day] in their society.” (Hmmmmmmm? Sound familiar to today "Why'd you stop me officer?" "Where you going?" "I don't have to tell you" "GUN!!!!!!" and you're dead. SALUTE THE FLAG! HEIL!)
Some BLACK-AMERICAN SLAVES used these more relaxed holiday times to run for freedom from THEIR WHITE-AMERICAN ENSLAVERS. (I'm guessing they didn't salute the flag as they escaped. DAMN THOSE DISLOYAL-SLAVES! AFTER ALL WE DID FOR THEM!?!?!?! HOW DARE THEY FLEE OUR TENDER-LOVIN LOVECRAFTIAN-CARE!!!!!!)
In 1848, Ellen and William Craft, an enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN married couple from Macon, Georgia, used passes from their WHITE-AMERICAN SLAVE-owners during Christmastime to concoct an elaborate plan to escape by train and steamer to Philadelphia (OH MY GOD THEY'RE THINKING!?!??! HIDE THE CHINAWARE! OH LORDZ DUH MACHINES DONE REBELLED!!!!!!). On Christmas Eve in 1854, Underground Railroad icon Harriet Tubman set out from Philadelphia to Maryland’s Eastern Shore after she had heard her three brothers were going to be sold by their WHITE-AMERICAN SLAVE-owner the day after Christmas. (Ahem. AN AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE!!!!!! Ever wonder where that came from...? HEH-HEH-HEH. Yeah, there you go). The WHITE-AMERICAN SLAVE-owner had given them permission to visit family on Christmas Day. But instead of the brothers meeting with their families for dinner, their sister Harriet led them to freedom in Philadelphia. (You DO UNDERSTAND what you JUST READ, RIGHT? Right? You LITERALLY JUST READ HOW AND WHY IT IS SO EASY FOR BLACK-AMERICAN FAMILIES TO DISINTEGRATE! Harriet Tubman finds out, HOW DID SHE FIND OUT BY THE WAY? Oh and DON'T SWEAR IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH ANYONE WHITE, because!? Black-American SLAVES USED TO RELAY MESSAGES BY LITERALLY USING THEIR HAIRRRRRRRRRR. This is why PRESENT-DAY BLACKS, once again WOEFULLY UNPREPARED AND POORLY RAISED. Had NO IDEA THAT THIS EMPIRE HAS COUNTLESS LAWS AGAINST BLACK-PEOPLE WEARING THEIR NATURAL HAIR, LET THAT SHIT SINK IN!!!!!!! Seems IDIOTIC ON THE SURFACE, right, WRONG! This is why Whites DON'T LIKE TO HONESTLY TALK ABOUT SLAVERY AND EVERYTHING CONNECTED TO IT TO MAKE IT WORK FOR AS LONG AS IT DID! Never mind THAT THEY THEN NEVER REMOVED COUNTLESS ANTI-BLACK SLAVE CODES/LAWS FROM OFF OF THE STATE, LOCAL AND NATIONAL CODES OF LAW! Lotta work THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE ON THAT! But Fools thought it was okay to elect Obama or to elect ANYBODY THEY DON'T FUCKIN KNOW, OWN, AND CONTROL! AND HASN'T OFFERED US ANY TANGIBLES RIGHT FROM THE WORD "GO"!? This is where MOST of Our DYSFUNCTION COMES FROM. Having to SURVIVE SLAVERY. Where you LITERALLY HAVE TO ABANDON YOUR FUCKIN FAMILY OR ELSE NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN ANY FUCKIN WAY! Meanwhile? What DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THEY NEVER SHOWED UP TO THEIR WHITE-OWNED SLAVE PLANTATION/S AND NEVER CAME BACK TO THE ONE THEY WERE TRAPPED-&-ENSLAVED ON? Miss Me with the whole Good triumphs over Evil bullshit. Because IT DOESN'T WITHOUT GENUINE HARD WORK TO STOMP THE SHIT OUT OF PEOPLE INTENT ON DOING EVIL HARMFUL SHIT TO YOU. Lemme wrap this shit up!)
John Kunering
For enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN people, resistance during Christmastime didn’t always take the form of rebellion or flight in a geographical or physical sense. Often it came in the way they adapted the dominant society’s WHITE-AMERICAN ENSLAVER traditions into something of their own, allowing for the purest expression of their humanity and cultural roots. (-_- Uhhhhhhhhhhm, what choice did they have in absorbing White-American, and note he now types DOMINANT SOCIETY. -_- Tiresome. Lemme go back AND FIX THAT NOW. And NOTE HOW he tries to turn this INTO SOMETHING GOOD AND RIGHT AND NOBLE AND PURE AND SHUT THE FUCK UP! Roland Martin tried this same shit with Richard Spencer on News One. "I'm a Christian. I'm a REAL CHRISTIAN. I don't know what ya'll practicing." He was then asked if he identifies himself as a Blackman AND HE SAID EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR YES. He may have even called himself a Koala Bear while backpedaling)
In Wilmington, North Carolina, enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN people celebrated what they called John Kunering (other names include “Jonkonnu,” John Kannaus” and “John Canoe”), where they dressed in wild costumes and went from house to house singing, dancing and beating rhythms with rib bones, cow’s horns and triangles. At every stop they expected to receive a gift. “Every child rises on Christmas morning to see the John Kannaus,” remembered writer and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs in her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. “Without them, Christmas would be shorn of its greatest attraction.” (Uhhhhh? Okay. Again, absorbing something and then TRYING TO SPIN IT TO SOMETHING POSITIVE BECAUSE WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY KIND OF SELF-DETERMINATION. Oh and for the Shit-starters, yes. Blacks today can START A BUSINESS, and then get cyber-attacked by Whites until it's destroyed like Blackspot. I wonder why Whites didn't cyberattack Facebook when it started. Clearly a coincidence.)
These public displays of joy were not universally loved by all White-Enslavers and Whites in Wilmington, but many encouraged the activities. “It would really be a source of regret, if it were denied to slaves in the intervals between their toils to indulge in mirthful past times,” said a White antebellum judge named Thomas Ruffin. (Note that Thomas Ruffin's quote shows HE KNOWS ONLY BLACKS ARE SLAVES THUS HE DOESN'T NEED TO IDENTIFY ANY OTHER RACES.)
For historian Sterling Stuckey, author of Slave Culture, the Kunering reflected deep African roots: “Considering the place of religion in West Africa, where dance and song are means of relating to ancestral spirits and to God, the Christmas season was conducive to Africans in America continuing to attach sacred value to John Kunering.” (Interesting. It's okay for the Niggers to worry about dancing and singing and THAT'S ALL WE NEED TO FOCUS ON FOR THIS. No need TO HIGHLIGHT HOW THEIR INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTIES WEREN'T THEIRS AND THEY HAD TO BARTER THEM IF THEY COULD TO HAVE WHAT THEY ALREADY HAD BEFORE GETTING ENSLAVED.)
‘None of the Negroes Was Ever Forgot on That Day’
Enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN people had a long memory of Christmastime. They remembered how they used it to mark time around the planting season. They knew they could count on it for a measure of freedom and relaxation. Their inability to participate fully in gift exchange—one of the most basic aspects of the season—helped reinforce their place as men and women who couldn’t benefit from their labor. Some, like Harriet Tubman and the Crafts, saw it as a time best suited to challenge the whole society.
The adults remembered the gifts long after their childhoods were stolen by this terrible institution. (Notice here We see the signs of ABNORMAL THINKING TAKING FULL-ROOT.) “Didn’t have no Christmas tree,” recounted a formerly enslaved BLACK-AMERICAN man named Beauregard Tenneyson, in a WPA interview. “But they set up a long pine table in the house and that plank table was covered with presents and none of the Negroes was ever forgot on that day.” (SOOOOOOOOOOOOH? Was this all that was asked of this Ex-Black Slave? Or is THIS EXCERPT ALL WE NEED FOR THIS ARTICLE? If so then this man comes across as a Coon. More worried about PRESENTS that he could or could not GET. INSTEAD OF "We finally got free and I went on a good 10-years. Got lucky. Was able to meet up with family-&-friends. Then we went back to that plantation and slaughtered the shit outta our White-slave owners and took all the shit we'd fuckin made for them anyway. They took our lives so we made them pay what they owed with theirs." NO NO NO. NONE OF THAT! Save THAT, for the Movies. PREFERABLY ONE CREATED BY WHITES. This way you can have Django Unchained where WE ARE GIVEN PERMISSION to do such things. Which is why I hate that movie and have never seen it AND NEVER WILL SEE IT, by the way. WELP!? That's the End of this sad-ass article. It took Me way too long to put this together. But it's done. And I'll type to you later... SALUTE THE FLAG! HEIL!)
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