PRINTER'S NO. 3443
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
871
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY KINSEY, V. BROWN, MILLARD, SIMS, HENNESSEY,
SCHLOSSBERG, BIZZARRO, ROTHMAN, DiGIROLAMO, HILL-EVANS,
DONATUCCI, LONGIETTI, R. BROWN, MURT, READSHAW, PASHINSKI,
NEILSON, RABB, WARD, CALTAGIRONE, SOLOMON, DRISCOLL,
SCHWEYER, O'NEILL, M. QUINN AND DALEY, APRIL 26, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 26, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Observing June 19, 2018, as "Juneteenth Independence Day" in
Pennsylvania in recognition of June 19, 1865, the date on
which slavery was abolished finally in all regions of the
United States.
WHEREAS, For 153 years, Americans of African descent have
celebrated June 19 as "Juneteenth Independence Day" or
"Juneteenth National Freedom Day" in recognition of the human
struggles of their enslaved descendants; and
WHEREAS, According to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Database, between 1525 and 1866, the duration of the
transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, an estimated 12.5
million men, women and children were captured and forcibly
transported in bondage from their African homelands to the
Americas; and
WHEREAS, An estimated 10.7 million Africans, mostly from the
Congo, Nigeria, Angola and Senegambia, survived the hazardous
Middle Passage and disembarked in North America, the Caribbean
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