Juneteenth helps us acknowledge the injustices and abuses 18th- and 19th-century enslaved Black people confronted and lived through. Before Juneteenth, several slave owners moved to Texas so they could continue to profit from the free labor of enslaved Black people. We follow the example of formerly enslaved Black freedom practitioners, Reverend Jack Yates, Reverend Ellias Dibble, Richard Brock, and Richard Allen, who raised funds within the Black community to purchase 10 acres of land in Houston, Texas in 1872 so Black people could commemorate Juneteenth in a public space.