Developer Diary, Abolition Commemoration Day

Social Media Recipes Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next Reviving the former Emancipation Day/Fifth of July, New York celebrates the first Monday of the month as Abolition Commemoration Day, marking the state’s 1827 abolition of slavery. While the state declared Emancipation Day to coincide with the country’s Independence Day on the fourth, fears about violence from white people—legitimate, given that anti-abolitionist riots would rip New York City apart about seven years later—convinced many Black people to celebrate a day later. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? comes out of such a celebration. In fact, let’s listen. Why celebrate a holiday not listening to the words of Frederick Douglass when we have that option, right? If you don’t have an hour, increase the playback speed. The reader speaks deliberately enough that you probably won’t lose too much until it goes by too fast for you to process. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Social Media …OK, but not…