The holiday commemorates when the last slaves were freed in 1865, following the end of the Civil War.
and the District of Columbia. It commemorates June 19, 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced to the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, that they were now free.
This followed the defeat of the Confederacy in the Civil War and the passage of the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery in almost all cases. Granger issued an order which said:"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free."
"This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor.", so June 19th has become a day to mark the end of slavery in the U.S.Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer speaks to reporters following a Senate Democratic luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on June 15, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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