Today marks the 153rd anniversary of the official end to slavery in America, also known as Juneteenth. On this day, Major General Gordon went to Galveston, Texas to alert the community President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves two years earlier.…
Juneteenth, a hybrid of June and Nineteenth, celebrates the emancipation of all slaves and the official end to slavery in America. While the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect January 1st, 1863 it took a while for all the states to…