Rep. Danielle Friel Otten @repdanielle.com · Jun 19 Juneteenth is a day of celebration and commemoration, honoring the date when enslaved people in Texas were finally given the news that they were free.
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On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to deliver the news that the practice of enslaving and trafficking people to profit from their labor was no longer a legal practice in the United States.