Going to Galveston: The birthplace of Juneteenth

(IHG)   Report January 1, 1863, is a date etched in U.S. history. It's the day President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation decla...

June 17, 2022
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(IHG)   Report January 1, 1863, is a date etched in U.S. history. It's the day President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring, "all persons held as slaves" shall be free. But it would be nearly two and a half years until that proclamation was realized, and the last group of enslaved people in the country were set free. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon, along with thousands of Union soldiers arrived in Galveston Bay to free 250,000 Black people, still under slavery in the state of Texas - the final Confederate stronghold to fall.

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