New Years Day

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• SOURCE: Time
  12/27/19
  

  The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

  In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families.