Short history thread in honor of a special day:
#Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America, but the proclamation issued by the Union army in Texas on June 19, 1865, did not end slavery in the United States. (1/3)
#Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in America, but the proclamation issued by the Union army in Texas on June 19, 1865, did not end slavery in the United States. (1/3)
Slavery remained legal in Kentucky and Delaware until the ratification of the 13th Amendment was declared on December 6, 1865. Unlike the border states of Maryland and Missouri, Kentucky and Delaware had refused to abolish slavery by state action. (2/3)
Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger's General Orders No. 3—the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, issued on June 19, 1865—brought freedom to about 250,000 enslaved people in Texas, the last Confederate state occupied by the Union army. loa.org/books/400-the-… (3/3) 
Exciting addendum to our #Juneteenth thread: @USNatArchives in Washington appears to have located the original handwritten order that liberated app. 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas #OTD in 1865.
Via @WaPo: washingtonpost.com/history/2020/0…
Via @WaPo: washingtonpost.com/history/2020/0…
