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And if you feel a way about me telling you that white people don't get credit for the work of Black people in ending slavery? Come on down so I can really hurt your feelings. Because Lincoln fought to preserve the Union & the Confederacy fought to keep slavery.

On June 19th,1865 the enslaved Africans in Galveston became the last in the Confederacy to find out that they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. They celebrated Juneteenth.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.

Enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation generally followed battle lines, encompassing all of the Confederacy except Texas by the end of the war. Four states abolished slavery before the end of the war: Maryland, Missouri, the new state of West Virginia and Tennessee.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas — two months after the Confederacy surrendered in the Civil War.

The day tells a broader story of how emancipation was woefully delayed for Black people enslaved deep in the Confederacy.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, two months after the Confederacy had surrendered.

Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. Nine months later, on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared enslaved people in the Confederacy forever free — though slavery remained in effect on the ground.

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It is the day when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.