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Whereas, the Negroes in the State of Texas observe June 19 as the official day for the celebration of Emancipation from slavery; and Whereas, June 19, 1865, was the date when General [Gordon] Granger, who had command of the Military District of Texas, issued a proclamation notifying the Negroes of Texas that they were free; and
On June 19, 1865, 2½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued and two months after the Civil War was formally over, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army and 2,000 soldiers ...
The state of West Virginia was formed from the northwestern counties of Virginia as well as counties from the southwest and the Valley. Federal statehood was granted in 1863. [62] West Virginia was a divided state during the Civil War, half of the counties had voted for the Confederacy in 1861 and half its soldiers were Confederate. [63]
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is a national holiday that commemorates an important day in history—June 19, 1865. ... States of America, to take over the state and ...
Evolution of the enslaved population of the United States as a percentage of the population of each state, 1790–1860. Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions ...
Juneteenth’s original name was Jubilee Day, and it marked the first anniversary of the day the remaining enslaved people were freed, nearly two years after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
The vote was in favor of a new state—West Virginia—which was distinct from the Pierpont government, which persisted until the end of the war. [122] Congress and Lincoln approved, and, after providing for gradual emancipation of slaves in the new state constitution, West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863.