DOCUMENTARY---Juneteenth
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June, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day is considered the longest running African American holiday. It marks the liberation of 250,000 enslaved people in Texas. 2.5 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 18 63 declaring that all enslaved people held in the state. Stand in rebellion against the United States States shall be then dance forward and forever free. But here's the thing, the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the 11 confederate states who had succeeded and were at war with the *****. The five border states did not want to succeed. So to further incentivize them, to stay. Lincoln allowed them to keep slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was initially less about ending slavery and more about gaining a competitive advantage is to regain control of the confederate states. My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the ***** and it's not either to save or to destroy slavery. Lincoln wrote in an editorial published in the Delhi National Intelligence. The news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread as ***** troops made their way to the South, but the State of Texas wasn't involved in any large scale battles. So slavery continued uninterrupted until two months after the war ended in April of 18 65. On June 19th US. General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and read general order. Number three, the people of Texas are informed that in accordance with the proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free with the news came eruptions of jubilation and June was born.