In what is now known as Juneteenth, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War is over and slavery in the United States is abolished.
A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce.
Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information.
Upon arrival and leading the Union soldiers, Major Gen. Gordon Granger announced General Order No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.”
On that day, 250,000 enslaved people were freed, and despite the message to stay and work for their owners, many left the state immediately and headed north or to nearby states in search of family members who had been taken to other regions during slavery.
For many African Americans, June 19 is considered an independence day. Before 2021, nearly all 50 states recognized Juneteenth as a state holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed legislation officially declaring it a federal holiday.
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April 16, 1862
That paper only stated that the slaves in the occupied south where free. It did not free the slaves in the north, nor the white slaves.
It didn’t free anyone..that took a Constitutional amendment and didn’t take effect for some until 1868…
Federal workers have darn near had the last 16 months off. What’s another day.
Some have and others have not missed a day of work.
So now can we discuss the ownership and the trading of slave by free blacks?
Nope. The truth will never be allowed to be discussed. More so now and in the near term future …. than ever before.
So the same federal employees that steal the fruits of our labor, tell us what we can legally defend ourselves with, where we can bank, what currency we must use, how much of our income we can keep, what we may legally consume as medicine, who we may legally contract with to treat our illnesses, how many mpg our cars must get, and so much more, now get yet another holiday paid for by us, so they can celebrate the “end” of slavery. The irony.
On the other hand,it might just be cheaper to pay Federal bureaucrats to sit at home every day and just watch porn.
Am I the only one who finds the juxtaposition of Juneteenth and Father’s day to be extremely humorous?
It is the day, however, that the Rosenbergs were executed for giving American nuclear secrets to the Soviets, so there’s something to celebrate!
Not really, our benevolent betters have been doing this for years with China , Russia and God only know who else. We don’t even blink an eye about their lying, traitorous asses but then we get all patriotic and nationalistic about the hammer falling on the serfs.
Let the celebrations begin!
It’s only after guzzling so much alcohol, I become so retarded I can’t even pronounce the number 19 either.
I am not certain if it will be a male or female name, or both, but odds are very good that a bunch of babies born out of wedlock will be named Juneteenth.
Others will surely be named Quaranteen and Corona.
True story from nurse cousin
Femalea and maleb….black parents liked the names the hospital gave their twins so they kept the names
Female A
Male B
It should be called shooteenth since that is how they’ll celebrate it.
…Texas with news that the Civil War is over and s̶l̶a̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶i̶n̶ the United States Constitution is abolished.
FIFY
The name Juneteenth – just sounds ignorant.
End of slavery? That’s not what HE says.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1405883660079751168
It is a day that will live in infamy, a day that made us all slaves to the dictate of the few and now, decades on, the controls have become worse than the worst of slavery for we live in and under controlling fear and shackles which are enforced with division by race, vaccine compliance, masks, and mandates punishable not by Whips and Hangings but by the worst punishment of all….. loss of free thought,speech and social isolation all in the land we tamed and handed over to social justice warriors.
First i remember hearing juneteenth is 2020.