Thread by @VoteDarlene

I’m going to say this, not to be pedantic, but because I’m seeing and hearing people get it wrong.
#EmancipationDay is a celebration of when the slaves were freed. ❌WRONG

The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal in the U.S (with a caveat). ✅CORRECT
#Juneteenth is the

celebration of when the last REMAINING slaves in the REBEL state of Texas were told they were free. Too many people incorrectly believe Abraham Lincoln’s Executive Order, the Proclamation 95 freed all the slaves. It did not. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in

seceding states. June 19, 1865 - 2.5 years after the Order took effect, the enslaves people in Galveston, TX were told they were free. This is important, because if people get this wrong, they will believe something that’s not correct about our country’s history. Why is that

important? This is important because the enslaved people in Kentucky, for example were still slaves until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865. Kentucky was a slave state, but it did not secede from the Union. Therefore, slaves in Kentucky were still slaves after the

Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

FYI, Kentucky did not ratify the 13th Amendment in 1865. They ratified it as a symbolically gesture in 1976!

So why June 19 vs December 06? I suspect because it was first. Juneteenth was first celebrated in 1866 and it stuck.