Comment on Read President Trump’s Statement on Juneteenth, Celebrating the Official End of Slavery in Texas

Read President Trump’s Statement on Juneteenth, Celebrating the Official End of Slavery in Texas

President Donald Trump issued a statement celebrating Juneteenth – the day slavery ended in Texas. Trump’s statement commemorates the 153rd anniversary of Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arriving in Galveston. When he landed on June 19, 1865, Granger declared the end of the Civil War and issued a long-awaited order freeing the remaining enslaved people in Texas. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation signed two years earlier, those to whom it applied depended on the Union Army to enforce the order and free them.

 

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