US EditionJuneteenth Started with Handbills Proclaiming Freedom. Here’s What They Said
- Union troops led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued an order in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, declaring enslaved people free.
- The order came nearly three years after President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and followed the end of the Civil War.
- The order was posted as handbills and published in newspapers, initiating Juneteenth, celebrated in Texas since 1866 and recognized federally in 2021.
- Historian Erin Stewart Mauldin noted Texas's enslaved population grew from 182,000 in 1860 to about 250,000 by 1865, emphasizing emancipation’s delayed enforcement by troops.
- Juneteenth marks the last major emancipation event and reflects ongoing efforts by freed people to define citizenship amid persistent social challenges.
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Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom. Here's what they said
The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.
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