CSPAN3 History Of Juneteenth March 7, 2015
The mensa patient proclamation was the emancipation proclamation was signed into law of 1862 to go into effect january 1, 1863 but the words and the enforcement of the emancipation proclamation did not go into effect here in the south until 2. 5 years after the effective date. Africanamerican slaves could not read. It was against the law for them to be able to read so i dont think they knew about it. The union troops arrived in galveston on june the 18th, 1865. There was 2000 union soldiers. Some of the slaves, one heard they were free, were jubilant and others were depressed because they had ...