Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.

Just to be clear, Africans had writing, reading, mathematics, science, medicine, and more millennia before Europeans did. [1]

[1] https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achie...

Yes, good addition—and in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about how most slaves weren’t allowed to learn to read or write.

oddly specific