- Juneteenth - Wikipedia
In January 1865, Congress finally proposed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution for the national abolition of slavery By June 1865, almost all enslaved persons had been freed by the victorious Union Army or by state abolition laws
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On June 19, 1865, Maj Gen Gordon Granger and a contingent of some 2,000 Union troops entered Galveston, Texas, to deliver General Order No 3, a proclamation to alert the enslaved Black residents of the state that they were free under the provisions of the Emancipation Proclamation
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Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed
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It is accurate that Granger arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, 2 5 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after the Confederates surrendered after the battle at Appomattox Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard professor, author of On Juneteenth and a native Texan, wrote that Galveston was the largest
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On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, at the head of approximately 2,000 federal troops Juneteenth does not mark the end of slavery in a singular, celebratory sense—it marks the moment when the idea of freedom finally arrived in the most remote parts of the American South It is a testament to
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Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops The Civil War had ended on
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Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 and the Confederate army surrendered to the Union army in April 1865, enslaved people in Texas — the westernmost Confederate state — could not exercise their freedom until June 19, 1865
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Juneteenth marks the date when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to officially declare slaves in the state as being free 1865, freeing the state's slaves
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