Juneteenth

Commemorate Juneteenth – an American celebration that marks the end of slavery in the United States

Celebrate Juneteenth at Jamestown Settlement with music, dance, spoken-word performances and dramatic presentations.

Although Juneteenth springs from events that happened in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, the event celebrates liberation from a system of slavery with origins in Jamestown, Virginia. Jamestown was the place where the first recorded Africans in British North America were brought in 1619 after landing at Old Point Comfort. It is the place where the first slave laws enacted in the mid-17th century impacted the lives and status of Africans and their descendants for centuries.