In 2021, Juneteenth, traditionally a Texas holiday, became a federal holiday, and in recent years, there has been a push to have a greater understanding and acknowledgment of enslaved people here in the South.
In Durham’s historic Stagville, the lessons of the past are still being learned today.
“We see folks coming to historic Stagville who really want to understand the true, full history of slavery and want to understand the stories of enslaved people and of their descendants,” said Vera Cecelski, the site manager of the Stagville Historic Site. “And we see, we’ve seen an increase in the number of people who really want to understand the legacy of what happened here. The stories of Stagville after 1865, and the stories of these families who survived slavery here and went on to be entrepreneurs and sharecroppers and tenant farmers and laborers and living parts of communities all across the United States.”…