What’s crazy is that most people don’t really know what June is 😂. June 19 commemorate the ending of slavery in Texas, making it a Texas holiday until very recently when it became a national holiday in 2021. It was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. Slavery came to an end in various areas of the United States at different times. In January 1865, Congress finally proposed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution for national abolition of slavery. By June 1865, “almost” all enslaved were freed by the victorious Union Army, or abolition laws in some of the remaining U.S. states. When the national abolition amendment was ratified in December, the remaining enslaved in Delaware and in Kentucky were freed. So basically it took a whole year for “almost all” slaves to know they were entitled to freedom smh, but hey we do need more federal holidays too tho!
