By Marcia Fudge ·Updated June 17, 2022
On Juneteenth, we celebrate the day that enslaved Black Americans in Texas were made aware of their freedom.
Enslaved people in the Confederate States, which included Texas, had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. That was two-and-a-half years before Juneteenth.
But, it was not until Union generals arrived in Galveston, Texas– two months after the end of the Civil War–- that enslaved people were
