Talk:Negro Election Day

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Proposal of major edits for historical completeness 2015-24-4 edit

This article needs a substantial revision, since, other than one context-free sentence without citation, it implies that Negro Election Day was only celebrated by New England's slaves. This is false - black New Englanders observed Negro Election Day after New England abolished slavery. For instance, black Bostonians in the antebellum period held wild celebrations on Boston Common, and after the economy tanked found themselves assaulted by white youths. So there's a lot more history here than "some fun things New England's slaves did."

But this is too much of a project for a Friday night on a mobile phone :) I'll come back to this, logged in and with a few quite solid citations. But I'm not a historian and this article could use some attention from the community.

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