Juneteenth
Juneteenth: The Seeds of Freedom
A fellow CA blogger, Terry over at TerryFacePlace wrote this moving piece marking today, June 19th known as Juneteenth, which celebrates the emancipation of the slaves. She ties it nicely into the immigration debate.
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Today is June 19th, otherwise known as Juneteenth.
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration of of the emancipation of the slaves in the United States. The significance of June 19 is that day in 1865, Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas and announced the order that the slaves had been freed. This was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and the reasons for this could be one of many, including the desire to not let them know so owners could reap another harvest, to the fact that there weren't enough Union soldiers to enforce it until Granger arrived. Nevertheless, they were finally freed from their enslavement, and Juneteenth is the celebration of that day.
Slavery was both an economic issue, and a moral issue in America, and slaves, alongside free men and indentured servants, were the people that built America.
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