What is Juneteenth?

Juneteenth, an America holiday celebrated on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation the federal order ending slavery in the united state - proclaiming that all enslaved persons in the United State of Texas were now free.

                            '' The American Holiday also Know as Emancipation Day and Black Independence Day".

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On that day, Union troops led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Texas, where he announced the end of civil war and abolition of slavery nationwide. The war had ended with the defeat of the Confederate state in the April, just two months earlier when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered on 9th April 1865. Emancipation Proclamation  had formally freed all enslaved persons almost Two and half years earlier during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.