On this day in 1865, all those enslaved in Texas learned, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that they were free.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 19, 2023 JUNE 19, 1865 Although the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued two years earlier, it wasn’t until this date — two months after the Civil War ended — that all those enslaved in Texas learned they were free. Union Gen.
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