{"product_id":"generation-after-generation-fight-for-black-liberation-t-shirt","title":"Generation after Generation, Fight For Black Liberation | T-Shirt","description":"On June 19, 1865 Major General Gordon Granger and 1,800 Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that slavery finally ended with the issuing of General Order Number 3, which claimed that there would be “absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHowever, the last enslaved Africans in Texas were set free not by this declaration, but by the arms of the Union military who fought loyalists and recalcitrant slave masters who sought to eke out every last drop of labor from their slaves, despite the results of the war. Black freedom was won through persistent struggle against slave masters to the very end, all paper declarations and proclamations of freedom aside. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is simply a myth that enslaved Africans were unaware of their freedom and were simply ignorant of the declarations. As a formerly enslaved man, Felix Haywood said at the time “We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time…We all felt like heroes and nobody had made us that way but ourselves.” The ending of slavery was not something to be decreed or proclaimed; freedom had to be seized from the clutches of the defeated slaveocracy by Black people acting as agents of their own liberation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJuneteenth reminds us of the will that our people have always had to fight, the role that fight has historically played in achieving the basic rights we have today, and the necessary role of organization in our ongoing fights for freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nArt by Danny Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n• 100% cotton","brand":"Liberation Store","offers":[{"title":"S","offer_id":47487467061425,"sku":"1694908_11556","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":47487467094193,"sku":"1694908_11557","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":47487467126961,"sku":"1694908_11558","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":47487467159729,"sku":"1694908_11559","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":47487467192497,"sku":"1694908_11560","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3XL","offer_id":47487467225265,"sku":"1694908_16246","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/8764\/9969\/files\/unisex-classic-tee-natural-front-6a34d0696ae02.jpg?v=1781846138","url":"https:\/\/www.liberationstore.org\/products\/generation-after-generation-fight-for-black-liberation-t-shirt","provider":"Liberation Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}