History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2258 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Juneteenth
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The idea
Slavery endured after the amendment because news travelled slowly and because some slaveholders deliberately withheld it from the people they held.
In practice
Major General Gordon Granger arriving at Galveston, Texas, on June nineteenth, eighteen sixty-five.
Where people slip
He announced that the people of Texas are informed that all slaves are free. Juneteenth became the most popular annual slavery-end celebration.
Your place on the trail
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