1- 29 February
Black History Month
In
America 2024

 What is “Black history” in America? If the reference is to those dark-skinned people that exist below the earth’s equator. Then there was only African history within the North American British colonials.
 
The British has acknowledged that its empire was built on the backs of enslaved Africans from 1555 to 1833.
 
The correct answer about Black American history is from July 9, Eighteen sixty-six (1866) (14th Amendment to the Constitution) is when “Black” American lives begin in the United States of America.
 
Africans and others enslaved by the British, had no history within the British Empire prior to 1833.
 
America was created in 1776. Manumission existed through the British empire and continued in the New United States, following its formation from 1776 as a cultural norm until 1865.
 
Manumission as practiced by President Lincoln’s Republican administration, was much more insidious than emancipation, because manumission enslaved the younger and future generations of the older emancipated former enslaved.
 
President Lincoln did not do the Africans any favors.
 
Eighteen hundred sixty-three
1863
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
 
That document stated that “all persons held as slaved WITHIN the rebellious areas.”  Rebellious areas were the eleven secessionist states of the Confederate States of America (CSA) 
 
Emancipation DID NOT pertain to the 23/24 slave holding states within of the Union, which did not secede! In Eighteen sixty-five (1865-66) - 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished chattel enslavement only.
 
Abraham Lincoln did, however, allow slaver holders of those northern states that supported him in the civil war, to manumit their African enslaved.
 
My book, a book of Black American achievements is titled, “Black American Lives That Mattered” (The Africans).