Posted on Jun 20, 2024
This Day in History: The origins of Juneteenth
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It's interesting how long it took to become a federal holiday. I didn't start hearing about it until I took college history classes.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
Ayuh, especially when you consider other things they grant recognition to . . .
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Galveston learned it was free, folks today need to remember there were no phones back then and the freed slaves may have not gotten the message because the Morse Code operators were assholes and decided not to pass on the message. It is not the fault of anyone today. There were still slaves held by the Indians
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CPT Lawrence Cable
And there were still slaves in the border states that didn't join the Confederacy. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Confederate States only, most of which Lincoln didn't control at the time. The 13th Amendment wasn't Ratified by the states until Dec. 1865. That freed the all the remaining slaves.
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